Self-reported factors influencing condom use among clinic attendees

Lieberthal, K.C.; Beckmann, C.A.

Western Journal of Nursing Research 19(4): 424

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0193-9459
PMID: 9260524
DOI: 10.1177/019394599701900402
Document Number: 361389
In the USA, data were collected from a convenience sample of 231 urban women seeking health care at a Midwestern women's health care centre at a city medical centre, Participants responded to 53 items, most taken from the Family Health Center Survey, which was designed to elicit descriptive data related to 3 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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