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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea

OBJECTIVES: In South Korea, men who have sex with men (MSM) are rather understudied, but are known to be at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This study was to access HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors, and to identif...

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Autores principales: Sohn, Aeree, Cho, Byonghee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24159508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.001
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description OBJECTIVES: In South Korea, men who have sex with men (MSM) are rather understudied, but are known to be at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This study was to access HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors, and to identify the factors of condom use in HIV prevention. METHODS: We recruited 1070 MSM in Korea, using the Internet to maximize the confidentiality of the MSM. RESULTS: The prevalence of self-reported and sexually transmitted infections and HIV in the total sample was 10.7% and 2.7%, respectively. Factual knowledge and phobias regarding HIV/AIDS and self-efficacy were relatively high among the MSM. After controlling for age, education, marital status, and sexual identity, predictors of condom use at most recent anal sex included knowledge (OR = 1.25; p < 0.0001); self-efficacy (OR = 1.33; p = 0.02), additionally, having HIV testing (OR = 1.45; p = 0.02); and having a regular partner (OR = 0.53; p < 0.0001) were also positively associated with condom use. CONCLUSION: The intervention programs for MSM in Korea may need to take the idiosyncratic societal and cultural pressures of the region into consideration in order to reduce infection risk.
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spelling pubmed-37387042013-10-24 Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea Sohn, Aeree Cho, Byonghee Osong Public Health Res Perspect Articles OBJECTIVES: In South Korea, men who have sex with men (MSM) are rather understudied, but are known to be at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This study was to access HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors, and to identify the factors of condom use in HIV prevention. METHODS: We recruited 1070 MSM in Korea, using the Internet to maximize the confidentiality of the MSM. RESULTS: The prevalence of self-reported and sexually transmitted infections and HIV in the total sample was 10.7% and 2.7%, respectively. Factual knowledge and phobias regarding HIV/AIDS and self-efficacy were relatively high among the MSM. After controlling for age, education, marital status, and sexual identity, predictors of condom use at most recent anal sex included knowledge (OR = 1.25; p < 0.0001); self-efficacy (OR = 1.33; p = 0.02), additionally, having HIV testing (OR = 1.45; p = 0.02); and having a regular partner (OR = 0.53; p < 0.0001) were also positively associated with condom use. CONCLUSION: The intervention programs for MSM in Korea may need to take the idiosyncratic societal and cultural pressures of the region into consideration in order to reduce infection risk. Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3738704/ /pubmed/24159508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.001 Text en Copyright ©2012, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea
title_fullStr Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea
title_short Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors in HIV/AIDS and Predictors Affecting Condom Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Korea
title_sort knowledge, attitudes, and sexual behaviors in hiv/aids and predictors affecting condom use among men who have sex with men in south korea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24159508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.001
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