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01-12-2012 | Research
Condom use at last sexual relationship among adolescents of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, - West Africa
Authors:
Carlos Mendes Tavares, Néia Schor, Vitor E Valenti, Paula Yuri Sugishita Kanikadan, Luiz Carlos de Abreu
Published in:
Reproductive Health
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Issue 1/2012
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Abstract
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.