Condom use self efficacy

Metrics details. Community engagement strategies are often integrated in public health interventions designed to promote condom use among men who have sex with men MSM , a key population for HIV prevention. However, the ways in which condom use peer norms and self-efficacy play a role in the association between community engagement and condom use is unclear. This study examines the potential mediating roles of peer norms and self-efficacy in this association.

Purpose: To investigate aspects of adolescents' condom use self-efficacy that affect their intended and actual condom use. Methods: Four hundred twenty-four male and female sexually experienced and inexperienced adolescents with a mean age of Specific condom use self-efficacy scales were constructed from 37 items on the basis of a principal component analysis. The effect of self-efficacy, both as a global measure and in terms of specific scales, on condom use intention and consistency was assessed using multiple hierarchic regression analyses. Significant predictors of intention in the final model were gender, age, global self-efficacy and purchasing skills in the inexperienced sample, and global self-efficacy, emotion control, assertiveness, image confidence, and sexual control in the experienced sample, whereas gender, age, global self-efficacy, emotion control, assertiveness, and purchase predicted consistency of condom use in the experienced sample. Conclusions: Condom use self-efficacy is a multidimensional construct. Intended and actual condom use in adolescents are best predicted by self-efficacy measures that include both global and relevant specific aspects of condom use.

Thomas W. Barkley, Jr, Jason L. The sample consisted of The obtained scores were subjected to a principal components factor analysis with a Varimax rotation. New cases of AIDS are expected to be diagnosed at the rate of — each year Froman and Owen, ; Katzenstein, ; Shank and Pund, and half of all new HIV infections occur among individuals who are 25 years of age and younger Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ,

To use logistic regression modeling to identify factors associated with high self-efficacy for sexual negotiation and condom use in a sample of South African youth. We used logistic regression modeling in this sample to identify factors associated with the main outcome of high self-efficacy. We used the social cognitive model SCM to identify factors associated with self-efficacy for condom use and sexual negotiation.