Table 2. Condom use among sexually active secondary school students—attitudes.
| Characteristic | Condom use |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Always |
Sometimes |
Never |
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| N | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | |
| Total | 679 | 272 | (40.1) | 174 | (25.6) | 233 | (34.3) |
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Perception of own condom use behaviour
and knowledge about condom use | |||||||
| Initiation of condom use*† | |||||||
| both | 394 | 244 | (61.9) | 121 | (30.7) | 29 | (7.4) |
| mostly mine | 58 | 18 | (31.0) | 32 | (55.2) | 8 | (13.8) |
| mostly my partner’s | 37 | 10 | (27.0) | 20 | (54.1) | 7 | (18.9) |
| don’t use condoms | 186 | 0 | (0.0) | 0 | (0.0) | 186 | (100) |
| I would partner won’t† | |||||||
| no | 661 | 269 | (40.7) | 171 | (25.9) | 221 | (33.4) |
| yes | 18 | 3 | (16.7) | 3 | (16.7) | 12 | (66.7) |
| Partner would I won’t* | |||||||
| no | 662 | 270 | (40.8) | 166 | (25.1) | 226 | (34.1) |
| yes | 17 | 2 | (11.8) | 8 | (47.1) | 7 | (41.2) |
| Knowledge about condom use | |||||||
| low | 193 | 65 | (33.7) | 56 | (29.0) | 72 | (37.3) |
| high | 441 | 188 | (42.6) | 106 | (24.0) | 147 | (33.3) |
| Attitudes and feelings about AIDS | |||||||
| Is AIDS dangerous? (perceived severity) | |||||||
| not at all | 6 | 0 | (0.0) | 2 | (33.3) | 4 | (66.7) |
| not very much | 6 | 3 | (50.0) | 2 | (33.3) | 1 | (16.7) |
| medium | 15 | 5 | (33.3) | 3 | (20.0) | 7 | (46.7) |
| pretty much | 85 | 30 | (35.3) | 26 | (30.6) | 29 | (34.1) |
| very much | 554 | 228 | (41.2) | 139 | (25.1) | 187 | (33.8) |
| Are you afraid of AIDS?† | |||||||
| not at all | 52 | 13 | (25.0) | 10 | (19.2) | 29 | (55.8) |
| not very much | 105 | 40 | (38.1) | 24 | (22.9) | 41 | (39.0) |
| medium | 115 | 43 | (37.4) | 35 | (30.4) | 37 | (32.2) |
| pretty much | 169 | 66 | (39.1) | 55 | (32.5) | 48 | (28.4) |
| very much | 225 | 105 | (46.7) | 48 | (21.3) | 72 | (32.0) |
| Chances of getting infected? (perceived susceptibility) | |||||||
| not at all | 232 | 88 | (37.9) | 50 | (21.6) | 94 | (40.5) |
| not very much | 247 | 96 | (38.9) | 78 | (31.6) | 73 | (29.6) |
| medium | 110 | 46 | (41.8) | 27 | (24.5) | 37 | (33.6) |
| pretty much | 45 | 19 | (42.2) | 12 | (26.7) | 14 | (31.1) |
| very much | 26 | 12 | (46.2) | 5 | (19.2) | 9 | (34.6) |
| Is AIDS preventable?† | |||||||
| not at all | 21 | 3 | (14.3) | 6 | (28.6) | 12 | (57.1) |
| not very much | 7 | 1 | (14.3) | 2 | (28.6) | 4 | (57.1) |
| medium | 149 | 55 | (36.9) | 37 | (24.8) | 57 | (38.3) |
| pretty much | 183 | 73 | (39.9) | 48 | (26.2) | 62 | (33.9) |
| very much | 294 | 129 | (43.9) | 76 | (25.9) | 89 | (30.3) |
| Opinion about condoms | |||||||
| Condoms are unnoticeable | 141 | 90 | (63.8) | 24 | (17.0) | 27 | (19.1)*† |
| Finally no side effects | 163 | 100 | (61.3) | 34 | (20.9) | 29 | (17.8)*† |
| Condoms decrease pleasure | 194 | 47 | (24.2) | 62 | (32.0) | 85 | (43.8)*† |
| Condoms are too tight | 62 | 13 | (21.0) | 21 | (33.9) | 28 | (45.2)* |
| Condoms fall off | 16 | 3 | (18.8) | 3 | (18.8) | 10 | (62.5)† |
| Condoms are complicated | 90 | 20 | (22.2) | 22 | (24.4) | 48 | (53.3)† |
| Condoms are safe | 376 | 189 | (50.3) | 113 | (30.1) | 74 | (19.7)† |
*
significant difference on the P<0.05 level between always and sometimes
†
significant difference on the P<0.05 level between at least sometimes and never