Abstract:
To compare sexual behaviors and sexual risk behaviors between students living at university or private dormitories and living with their families. It was a cross-sectional study gathering data by using a constructed questionnaire which has been validated by three experts. Samples were chosen by multistage random sampling from four Government universities and two private universities. Of those 618 students recruited, 218 cases lived with their families while 337 lived at dormitories. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and chi-square test. The finding of the study revealed the students risk behaviors were the dormitory students tended to drink alcohol and use drug different to those who lived with their families. Besides that, there was no statistic significance of all risk behaviors difference among those groups. After compared sexual risk behaviors of the two groups, it has been found that the majority of dormitory students and students who lived with their families used condoms when they had sex with sex workers, casual friends or a person who first met at the entertainments and lovers.