Predictors of self-efficacy to use condoms among seropositive middle-aged African American men.
Condom use during sexual encounters continues to be a challenge for seropositive individuals. Hence, the influence of personal characteristics, AIDS knowledge, and religious well-being on perceived self-efficacy to use condoms has been examined in a convenience nonprobabilistic sample of 130 middle-aged seropositive African American men from the Mid-Atlantic region. AIDS knowledge and religious well-being are strongly related to self-efficacy to use condoms. These findings indicate that it is critical to explore further the relationship of AIDS knowledge and religious well-being with self-efficacy to use condoms.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA. colemanc@nursing.upenn.edu
Christopher Lance
CL
Coleman
Katherine
K
Ball
D044383:Black People; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000523:psychology*; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012067:Religion; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D001741:Black or African American