Knowledge about and attitude towards sexually transmitted diseases,amongst first year medical students of Continental Medical College Lahore

Aim: to determine the knowledge level,attitude and educational needs of first-year medical students about sexually transmitted diseases at the continental medical college lahore. study design: cross sectional analytic study methodology: the study population has been consisted of first-year mbbs students at the departments of medical sciences as anatomy,physiology and biochemistry. the sample size was calculated using a formula for cross sectional studies which was 97 but the total number of first-year students at cmc was 121 between the session of 2016 to 2017 (50 males and 70 female students). among all these who were willing and available to participate in research constitute the sample of the study( 100),during the month of 2nd half of april and may (data collection period) results: forty two( 42%) male and 58% females had heard about sexually transmitted diseases,58% of respondents knew the names of diseases as hiv/aids and the two most commonly mentioned were gonorrhea and syphilis. the most important symptoms mentioned were pus discharge from urethra (29%) of respondents. the two most important sources of information were in school and colleges (46%) & internet (44%). the 88% knew that transmission via vaginal intercourse is most common. most of the students (86%) had positive attitude towards stds as well as good knowledge about prevention of stds. conclusion: the study reported satisfactory levels of awareness and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases; with positive attitude towards stds infected people.