TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Correlates of Condom Use Intentions among Junior High School Students in the Bolgatanga Municipality of Ghana
AU - Krugu, John Kingsley
AU - Mevissen, Fraukje Elisa Francisca
AU - Debpuur, Cornelius
AU - Ruiter, Robert A. C.
N1 - Open Access
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Objectives: We explored sociodemographics, sexual experience, and psychosocial factors influencing condom use intentions of adolescents in Northern Ghana. Methods: Based on social cognitive theories and previous empirical studies investigating condom use, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 2,018 adolescents (M age = 15.8years) in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Correlations and multinomial logistic regressions were performed. Results: Findings showed that attitudes toward condom availability, injunctive norms toward condom use, sex experience, perceived susceptibility towards STIs, and perceived behavioral control toward buying as well as using condoms differentiated between people with different levels of intentions to use condoms. Conclusions: Implications for intervention development are discussed.
AB - Objectives: We explored sociodemographics, sexual experience, and psychosocial factors influencing condom use intentions of adolescents in Northern Ghana. Methods: Based on social cognitive theories and previous empirical studies investigating condom use, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 2,018 adolescents (M age = 15.8years) in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Correlations and multinomial logistic regressions were performed. Results: Findings showed that attitudes toward condom availability, injunctive norms toward condom use, sex experience, perceived susceptibility towards STIs, and perceived behavioral control toward buying as well as using condoms differentiated between people with different levels of intentions to use condoms. Conclusions: Implications for intervention development are discussed.
KW - Adolescents; condoms; determinants; intentions; Ghana
U2 - 10.1080/19317611.2015.1124162
DO - 10.1080/19317611.2015.1124162
M3 - Article
SN - 1931-7611
VL - 28
SP - 96
EP - 110
JO - International Journal of Sexual Health
JF - International Journal of Sexual Health
IS - 1
ER -