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Condom embarrassment: coping and consequences for condom use in three countries

AIDS Care, 2008
This study investigates embarrassment related to condom purchase, carrying, storage, use, and disposal in three countries. We identify the consequences of purchase embarrassment for condom use and explore strategies that individuals use to cope with purchase-related embarrassment. Surveys were distributed in Shanghai, China and Seoul, Republic of Korea
Moore, Sarah G., Dahl, Darren W., Gorn, Gerald J., Weinberg, Charles B., Park, Jongwon, Jiang, Yuwei   +5 more
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Barriers to condom use

The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2008
To identify barriers to condom use.Data were extracted through MEDLINE from papers published between 1993 and 2007. Surveys, reviews, clinical studies and comments were included in this review. The impact of cost, moral, social, personal and psychological factors were taken into consideration.Several factors were associated with non-use of a condom ...
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Partner type and condom use

AIDS, 2000
To examine the association between type of sexual partnership and condom use consistency.A prospective follow-up study of women attending two urban clinics for sexually transmitted diseases (STD).Sexual diaries recording barrier method, partner initials and partner type for each act of intercourse were kept by 869 women.
M, Macaluso, M J, Demand, L M, Artz, E W, Hook   +3 more
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Update on adolescent condom use

Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2011
Pregnancy prevention efforts in the USA have largely focused on the use of hormonal contraceptive methods, relegating male condoms to discussions of 'dual-method' contraception or sexually transmitted infection prevention. With national attention and funding directed toward adolescent pregnancy prevention, a renewed focus on adolescent condom use ...
Rebekah L, Williams, J Dennis, Fortenberry   +1 more
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Commandos do not use condoms

International Journal of STD & AIDS, 2007
The aim of this study was to determine private soldiers' knowledge and attitudes about the use of condoms. This study includes privates discharged from the Zincidere 1st Commando Brigade, Kayseri, Türkiye. This study was composed of volunteers ( n = 481) who were present at their Brigade at the time of the research.
TAŞCI, Sultan, Baser, Mürüvvet, Albayrak, EVRİM   +2 more
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Impact of improved condom supply on condom use by prostitute women

AIDS, 1994
In July 1993 in Chogoria rural Nithi-Tharaka district eastern Kenya interviews were conducted with 135 female commercial sex workers (CSWs) and blood samples taken from 59 CSWs as part of a study to evaluate the health education and condom distribution program for CSWs for Chogoria Hospital.
C M, Fischbacher, J M, Njeru
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Patterns of Condom Acquisition by Condom-Using Men in the United States

AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2010
Condom-distribution programs have striven to make condoms more accessible to sexually active individuals, particularly adolescents and populations disproportionately affected by HIV and other STIs. Despite such programs, little is known about where condom-using men in the United States acquire their condoms.
Michael, Reece, Kristen, Mark, Vanessa, Schick, Debra, Herbenick, Brian, Dodge   +4 more
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Multiple Condom Use and Decreased Condom Breakage and Slippage in Thailand

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, 1997
There is compelling evidence that male condoms effectively prevent transmission of sexual pathogens, including HIV-1. Condom breakage and slippage reduce this effect. We measured rates of condom slippage and breakage during heterosexual commercial sex in northern Thailand.
S, Rugpao, C, Beyrer, S, Tovanabutra, C, Natpratan, K E, Nelson, D D, Celentano, C, Khamboonruang   +6 more
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Attitudes about Condoms and Condom use among college Students

Journal of American College Health, 1996
The authors assessed the relationships of ethnicity, gender, previous condom use, and intended condom use to perceived attributes of the condom and the contraceptive pill in a multiethnic sample of 197 college students. Factors that appeared to underlie attitudes toward the condom and the Pill included prevention of health problems, peer acceptance ...
L J, Beckman, S M, Harvey, L A, Tiersky
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Bringing up condom use and using condoms with new sexual partners: Intentional or habitual?

Psychology & Health, 2001
A prospective study of 94 Dutch adults who have casual sexual partners examined whether two important aspects of safe sex. namely bringing up condom use (BCU) and actual condom use (ACU) are intentional or habitual. For each of these aspects, a model based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB: Ajzen, 1991) was pitted against a similar model that was
Yzer, M.C, Siero, F.W., Buunk, Abraham (Bram)   +2 more
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