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respondents in terms of their personal profile such as: age, residence, civil status, religion, place
of work, highest educational attainment, and years engaged in work as sex worker and average
monthly income. In terms of sexual risk behavior the following variables were used number of
sexual partner which includes the number of new sex partners per week ,number of new sex
partners per day. As to the sexual risk behavior their uses and frequency of contraceptives which
also includes the type of the contraceptives being used, frequency of use of contraceptives and
reason for not using contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases and their antibiotics used. As
to their sexually transmitted Infection also included the medical history of sexually transmitted
diseases acquired, types of sexually transmitted diseases acquired, use of medications to treat
STDs, number of consultation with medical practitioner per month and per year and other types
of work-related diseases acquired.
The descriptive analysis design was used in this study where a total of 46 sexual
workers in Dagupan City served as the respondents, with completed requirements of working
permit , 21 respondents came from a club, 13 from a bar, 7 from restobar, 4 from KTV bar
and from videoke bar. These respondents were determined through the use of the pearson
correlation method.
The following are the findings of the study: 1) the sex workers range from 20 to 49
years old. Majority are young adult aged 21-29 (26 of 46 or 56.5%), they are from Rural area,
single, Roman Catholic, has an average monthly income of 5,000 and below, admitted to have
only one partner on annual basis, use contraceptives based on sexual partner’s request, majority
of the respondents acquired Urinary Tract Infections, take antibiotic as source of their medicine,
yet did not acquire other work related disease such as asthma, allergy, cough and colds, ulcer
and hyperacidity,
Based on the gathered results and findings of the study, the researcher has arrived
at the following conclusions: 1) Age, residence, civil status, religion, place of work, highest
educational attainment, years engaged in work and average monthly income were found out
that there exists no significant relationships along all areas; 2) As to sexual risk behavior, along
number of sexual partner, use of frequency of contraceptives and acquisition and treatment of
sexually transmitted diseases and other work related diseases exists no significant relationship
along all areas; 3)The significance value between the respondents’ profiles and their sexual
risk behavior along different areas are all greater than the set 0.05; 4) An Intervention health
programs for sex workers can be proposed to lessen the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
From the foregoing findings and conclusions, the following recommendations are
deemed important: 1)That the government should have a program to support the sexual worker
in terms of psychological, family and social integration, health and emotional needs; 2)That the
government should support and encourage every sexual workers to participate and offer them
free education; 3) That the government must have a job creation and established job for sexual
workers so that there will be other option not to pursue the work they have; 4)There should be
strict compliance of working permit in every sexual worker especially for health certificate and
screening for STDs.

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