Condom use at last sexual relationship among adolescents of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, - West Africa

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Carlos Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Schor, Neia, Valenti, Vitor Engrácia [UNESP], Sugishita Kanikadan, Paula Yuri, de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-9-29; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/42480
• topic: Adolescent health; Condom; Condom use; Sexual and reproductive health; Cape Verde; West Africa

Objective: To estimate factors associated with condom use at last sexual intercourse among adolescents.Methods: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13-17 years from eight public high schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 2007. The level of significance was 5.0% obtained from logistic regression, considering the association between condom use and socio-demographic, sexual and reproductive variables.Results: The prevalence of condom use at last sexual intercourse was 94.9%. Factors associated with condom use at last sexual relationship were: non-Catholic religion (OR=0.68, 95%CI: 0.52; 0.88) and affective-sexual partnership before the interview (OR=5.15, 95%CI: 1.79; 14.80).Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of condom use at last sexual intercourse of adolescents.