The medical-social study of the behavioural characterstics of the patients with sexually transmitted diseases in the present conditions
We carried out an anonymous questionnaire survey among people of reproductive age suffering from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and undergoing the treatment at venerologic clinics. We found social-hygienic features of social behaviour of people in the survey, preventing the elimination of infectious matters of STDs in patients and their sexual partners and enhancing the likelihood of a new infecting. The major factors turned out to be withholding the diagnosis from the sexual partners, non-attendance of the doctor for the test of cure, planned often change of sexual partners after the curing, the lack of information about the possibility of asymptomatic disease course of STDs, refusal to have a medical check up at the time of case finding in sexual partners. Above listed factors prevent the breaking of chain of infection, that's why the most of patients, undergoing the treatment at hospital, may be considered as a component of the nuclear group, mantaining the level of the number of cases of STDs in the total population.