Assessment of the Reproductive Health Status of Adult Prison Inmates in Osun State, Nigeria

Table 5

Sexual practices and reproductive health care of respondents.

Variable	Frequency; (𝑛)	Percentage; (%)
Sexual practices
Number of sexual partners before incarceration (𝑛=209)
None	46	22.0
1	49	23.4
2	62	29.7
3	28	13.4
4	16	7.7
5	5	2.4
>5	3	1.4
How often barrier method is used (𝑛=163)
Always	38	23.3
Occasionally	55	33.7
Rarely	33	20.3
Never	37	22.7
Sexual practices inside prison (𝑛=209)
Masturbation	19	9.1
Sex with opposite sex partner	0	0.0
Sex with same sex partner	3	1.4
None	187	89.5
Sexual harassment experience inside prison (𝑛=209)
No	195	93.3
By opposite sex inmate	8	3.8
By same sex inmate	5	2.4
By others (wardens/prison staffs)	1	0.5
Reproductive health care in the prison
Access to male condom and source (𝑛=209)
No	197	94.3
Yes, from prison officers	3	1.4
Yes, from prison clinics; (during HIV campaign programme)	9	4.3
Access to other family planning services (𝑛=209)
Yes	0	0.0
No	209	100.0
Access to seminar/health talk on HIV in prison (𝑛=209)
Yes	148	70.8
No	61	29.2
Organizers of health talk (𝑛=148)
Government	29	19.6
Prison authority	35	23.7
Missioners	40	27.0
NGO	33	22.3
Do not know	11	7.4
Use of clinic that takes care of health; needs (𝑛=209)
Yes	55	26.3
No	154	73.7