Condom use at last sexual relationship among adolescents of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, - West Africa

OBJECTIVE: To estimate factors associated with condom use at last sexual intercourse among adolescents. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13–17 years from eight public high schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 2007. The level of sign...

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Autores principales: Tavares, Carlos Mendes, Schor, Néia, Valenti, Vitor E, Kanikadan, Paula Yuri Sugishita, de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23153259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-9-29
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To estimate factors associated with condom use at last sexual intercourse among adolescents. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13–17 years from eight public high schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 2007. The level of significance was 5.0% obtained from logistic regression, considering the association between condom use and socio-demographic, sexual and reproductive variables. RESULTS: The prevalence of condom use at last sexual intercourse was 94.9%. Factors associated with condom use at last sexual relationship were: non-Catholic religion (OR=0.68, 95%CI: 0.52; 0.88) and affective-sexual partnership before the interview (OR=5.15, 95%CI: 1.79; 14.80). CONCLUSIONS: There was a high prevalence of condom use at last sexual intercourse of adolescents.

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