LGBT Bireylere Yönelik HIV İle İlgili Güvenli Olmayan Cinsel Davranışların Belirlenmesi

Oz Arastirmamiz, LGBT bireylerin HIV konusundaki bilgi duzeyleri ve guvenli olmayan cinsel davranislarini belirlemek amaci ile gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirmamiz, tanimlayici tipte bir calisma olup,  Haziran 2013 ile Eylul 2014 tarihleri arasinda gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirmanin orneklemi,  Istanbul ilindeki calismaya katilmayi gonullu olarak kabul eden 95 ‘i seks iscisi ve 71 ‘i seks iscisi olmayan toplam 166 LGBT bireyden olusmustur. Veriler 24 soruluk anket formu kullanilarak elde edilmistir. Istatistiki degerlendirme, SPSS 16,0 paket programi ile gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirmamiza katilan LGBT bireylerin yas ortalamasi, 26,89±8,4 ve %32,3 (n=70) universite mezunu idi. Katilimcilarin sadece %22.3’u (n=37), HIV bilgi sorularindan tam puan aldi. Arastirmamiza katilan LGBT bireylerin yalniz %51,8'inin (n=86) hayatlari boyunca en az bir kez HIV testi yaptirdiklari belirlendi. HIV’den korunmada, gerekli onlemlerin alinmadigi ve guvenli cinsel davranislar sergilenmedigi saptandi. Summury Our research has been carried out in purpose to determine the level of knowledge on HIV and unsafe sexual behaviors of LGBT individuals.Our research is a descriptive study which was conducted between June 2013 and September 2014. 95 volunteers of sex workers and 71 non-sex workers at Istanbul who accepted to participate,consists in total of 166 LGBT individuals.Data were obtained using a 24-item questionnaire. Statistical evaluation was carried out with SPSS 16.0 software package. The average age of LGBT individuals participating in our study,was 26.89±8.4 and 32.3% of them were university graduates. Only 22.3% of participants get full points in HIV knowledge questions.It has been determined that only 51.8% LGBT individuals who participated our research made an HIV test at least once in their lives.It is detected that  necessary precautions and safe sexual behavior which is neccesery in preventation of HIV has not been founded.