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For over a decade, the Brazilian Department of Chronic Condition Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Ministry of Defense have been conducting the Conscripts Survey aiming to assess the STI prevalence and obtain data on knowledge regarding STIs and risk factors among youth.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>A cross-sectional study was conducted among conscripts across Brazil aged 17 to 22\u200ayears from August to December 2016. It included a self-reported questionnaire containing 74 questions, 25 questions related to awareness and knowledge of STIs and their associated symptoms, routes of transmission, complications and risk factors.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>A total of 37,282 young men across Brazil were considered for the analysis. The majority resided in the Northeast and Southeast regions (38.9% and 30.0%, respectively), followed by the South (13.9%), North (9.7%), and Central-west (7.5%) regions. Of the conscripts, 97.2% have the knowledge they may be at risk if they do not use condoms during sex. Conscripts with a higher level of education have almost 2 times greater chance of having knowledge of having sex without a condom (OR 3.23 CI95% 2.82\u20133.70 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000) and sharing needles and syringes (OR 2.84 CI95% 2.62\u20133.07 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000) represents a risk. Those with higher education also have an almost 50% greater chance of having knowledge regarding STI transmission from mother to child (OR 1.54 CI95% 1.44\u20131.64 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000), and knowledge of no transmission by mosquito bite (OR 1.61 CI95%1.51\u20131.72 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000), by kissing (OR 1.45 CI95% 1.36\u20131.55 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000) or by using public toilets (OR 1.51 CI95% 1.41\u20131.61 <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">P<\/jats:italic>\u200a=\u200a.000). Television (71.8%) and internet (69.4%) are the preferred forms to obtain STIs information regardless of the level of education.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>Conscripts with higher level of education have greater knowledge regarding transmission of STIs. However, there are gaps regarding their knowledge about HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and the fact that other STIs can increase the chances of acquiring HIV.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1097\/md.0000000000026060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,5]],"date-time":"2021-06-05T00:17:25Z","timestamp":1622852245000},"page":"e26060","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Knowledge about sexually transmitted infections among young men presenting to the Brazilian Army, 2016"],"prefix":"10.1097","volume":"100","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0829-2517","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Machline Paim","family":"Paganella","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Pesquisas em Sa\u00fade (IPS), \u00c1rea do Conhecimento de Ci\u00eancias da Vida, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do Sul"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leonardo Rapone","family":"da Motta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Pesquisas em Sa\u00fade (IPS), \u00c1rea do Conhecimento de Ci\u00eancias da Vida, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do Sul"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aline De Gregori","family":"Adami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Pesquisas em Sa\u00fade (IPS), \u00c1rea do Conhecimento de Ci\u00eancias da Vida, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do Sul"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rosa Dea","family":"Sperhacke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Pesquisas em Sa\u00fade (IPS), \u00c1rea do Conhecimento de Ci\u00eancias da Vida, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do Sul"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S\u00e9rgio Kakuta","family":"Kato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Sa\u00fade Coletiva. 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