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OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to determine the knowledge level of Balikesir University Faculty of Tourism Department of Guidance students on sexually transmitted diseases and evaluate how sociodemographical variables affect their knowledge levels. METHODS: This study is a descriptive study. Students of the Balikesir University Faculty of Tourism Department of Guidance make up the universe of the study. A personal information form and the Knowledge Test About Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD Knowledge Test) which has 34 questions and is adapted from STI/HIV pretest which itself has 40 questions were used in this study. Data collected by face-to-face interviews. For the analysis of data, percentage distribution, t-test, Kruskal-Wallis and chi-square test are used. RESULTS: The mean age of the study group is 20.27 ± 1.16, and 56.2% of them are female. 57.7% of the study group have done their internship, and 78.5% of them has information about STDs. 42.3% of them got information from their friends, 24.6% from school, 17.7% from physicians, 15.4% from their family. The mean number of correctly answered questions in STI Knowledge Test is 24.96 ± 4.54. In men, according to her knowledge in the field, information about sexually transmitted diseases, according to the average scale of students who take the training girls than those test scores are 40 significantly higher (p <0.05). Knowledge test mean points were significantly higher in male students, in the students who have some knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases, and in the students who made internship (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: It is seen that despite the fact that university students have some knowledge about STDs, their knowledge on the treatment and complications of these diseases is inadequate. Sexual health education should be generalized in order to increase knowledge level and offer healthy knowledge sources to the students, and peer education projects should be developed.

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