title: The Role of Condom Use Self-Efficacy on Intended and Actual Condom Use Among University Students in Ghana.
abstract: Little attention has been paid to the dimensions that help to predict and understand condom use among university students within an African context. A cross-sectional study involving 518 university students in Accra, Ghana was conducted to determine how the Condom Use self-Efficacy Scale-Ghana (CUSES-G) can predict both actual condom use and future condom use. Of all the participants, 84% were sexually active but less than half of the sample (48%) reported to have used condom during their last sexual intercourse. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that components of the Condom Use Self-Efficacy Scale (CUESE-G) such as appropriation, assertiveness, pleasure and intoxication, and STDs predicted condom use and condom use intentions. Behavioural change campaigns targeting university students should encourage condom use self-efficacy, as this would strengthen condom use, which is economically cheap and practically effective means of preventing STIs including HIV.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Psychology, School of Applied Human Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. kwappong@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Kwaku
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0206-3326
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oppong Asante
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Osafo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Paul N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Doku
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005869:Ghana; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Condom use self-efficacy; Ghana; Sexually active; University students