SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTİVE HEALTH PROBLEM İN YOUNG PEOPLE: STİGMA

This analytical study was conducted to determine young people’s sexual and reproductive health-related stigma level. The data were collected online between May 2022 and July 2022 using the "Participant Information Form" and the “Young Women Sexual and Reproductive Health Stigma Scale (YWSRHSS)". The sample consisted of 275 young women. Of them, 51.3% were in the age group of 18-20 years, 47.3% were in the second year of university, 60.4% had an income equal to their expenses, and 46.5% lived in the dormitory. The mean scores they obtained from the overall YWSRHSS and its External Stigma, Unreal Stigma Attitudes and Internal Stigma sub-dimensions were 8.06+4.12, 4.02+1.87, 1.87+1.82, and 2.16+1.56 respectively. These results suggest that the participants’ mean scores were low, indicating that their levels of stigmatization attitudes were also low. Moreover a significant and negative relationship between the economic status variable and the mean score for the external stigma sub-dimension (p