Self-reported factors influencing condom use among clinic attendees.
Data were collected from a convenience sample of 231 urban women seeking health care at a Midwestern women's health care center at a city medical center. Participants responded to 53 items, most taken from the Family Health Center Survey, which was designed to elicit descriptive data related to three major categories: background factors, factors that might influence the decision to use a condom, and knowledge and attitudes that might predict condom acquisition. Knowledge of HIV transmission and safer sex was not a predictor of condom use. Through education and demonstrations of proper condom usage, nurses and other health care providers were influential in persuading adolescents and young adults to use condoms.
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Milwaukee Area Technical College, WI, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D015146:Midwestern United States; D011247:Pregnancy; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control