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- Document 0217
- DOCN M9620217
- TI Misunderstanding of 'safer sex' by heterosexually active adults.
- DT 9602
- AU Wenger NS; Kusseling FS; Shapiro MF; Division of General Internal
- Medicine, Health Services Research,; University of California, Los
- Angeles 90024-1736, USA.
- SO Public Health Rep. 1995 Sep-Oct;110(5):618-21. Unique Identifier :
- AIDSLINE MED/96073586
- AB To assess the understanding of safer sex among heterosexual adults,
- people enrolled in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) education trials
- at a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic and a university student
- health service were surveyed concerning sexual behavior with their
- latest reported partner. Of 646 sexually active persons enrolled in the
- trials, 233 (36 percent) reported having had safer sex with their latest
- partner; 124 of them (53 percent) also reported having vaginal or anal
- intercourse without a condom during that sexual encounter. Among the 124
- who reported safer sex despite having intercourse without a condom, only
- 23 percent reported asking partners about their HIV status, 46 percent
- had asked about intravenous drug use, and 47 percent had asked about the
- number of prior sexual partners. For 34 percent of those surveyed, the
- length of the sexual relationship with their latest partner was 1 month
- or less, and 18 percent estimated that this partner had had 11 or more
- prior sexual partners. STD clinic participants characterized intercourse
- without a condom as safer sex more often than student health service
- enrollees (76 percent versus 39 percent, P < 0.001). The concept of
- safer sex is often misunderstood by persons engaging in behavior at risk
- for HIV transmission, and the level of misunderstanding differs among
- samples. Interventions to reduce transmission of HIV must confront
- misconceptions about the risk of sexual intercourse without condoms and
- include specific instructions understood by the targeted group.
- DE Adult Ambulatory Care Facilities Comparative Study
- Condoms/UTILIZATION Female *Health Education Human HIV
- Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION *Knowledge, Attitudes,
- Practice Male Questionnaires Risk Factors *Sex Behavior Sexual
- Partners Student Health Services Substance Abuse,
- Intravenous/COMPLICATIONS Support, Non-U.S. Gov't JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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