Table II.
Reasons for Condom Use
| Self Protection | Role 1 HIV+/− |
Role 2 HIV−/+ |
Role 2 HIV−/− |
Role 3 HIV−/− |
All roles |
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| Condoms protecting you from diseases other than HIV | 63.0% | 63.4% | 58.5% | 72.5% | 66.6% |
| HIV | – | 69.6 | 43.4 | 58.3 | 64.6 |
| Getting HIV | – | 64.3 | 43.4 | 58.3 | 58.1 |
| Other STDs | 52.0 | 45.5 | 58.5 | 63.0 | 55.9 |
| Whether or not P could be sleeping with someone else | 29.3 | 29.5 | 52.8 | 51.2 | 41.0 |
| G: the reliability of condoms | 40.4 | 38.5 | 30.0 | 43.0 | 40.4 |
| G: Getting HIV is God’s will | – | 30.3 | – | 10.1 | 19.7 |
| G: God protecting you from disease | 15.7 | 23.8 | 0.0 | 13.4 | 17.0 |
| That you couldn’t get HIV | – | 6.2 | 20.8 | 14.3 | 12.8 |
| Partner Protection | |||||
| HIV | 78.7 | – | – | – | |
| Giving HIV | 74.5 | – | 25.0 | 69.5 | |
| Condoms protecting P from diseases other than HIV | 65.1 | 41.3 | 41.7 | 55.9 | 53.7 |
| Wanting to protect another partner | 22.0 | 23.8 | 33.3 | 50.8 | 32.8 |
| That you couldn’t give HIV | 9.4 | – | 25.0 | – | 14.5 |
| G: giving HIV is god’s will | 4.6 | – | 0.0 | – | 4.1 |
| Social Norms | |||||
| G: Whether it would be shameful to give HIV | 68.8 | – | 33.3 | 40.0 | 69.7 |
| Whether you are supposed to use a condom | 43.3 | 34.8 | 20.8 | 28.0 | 32.6 |
| Whether you or P actually had a condom | 26.0 | 34.8 | 24.5 | 36.5 | 32.2 |
| G: Whether it would be shameful to get HIV | – | 28.4 | 100.0 | 32.8 | 31.9 |
| G: Whether you are the sort of person who uses a condom | 29.4 | 22.9 | 20.0 | 30.7 | 27.5 |
| G: Condom implies that someone has HIV | 11.0 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.2 |
| What people you know think about condom use | 11.0 | 6.2 | 7.6 | 11.4 | 9.7 |
| G: Condoms being embarrassing or awkward to get | 4.6 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| G: What people would think of you if someone saw you buying condoms | 3.7 | 4.6 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
| Condoms being embarrassing to use | 1.6 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Relationship | |||||
| P wanted to use a condom | 59.1% | 50.0% | 30.2 | 41.2% | 46.5% |
| Using a condom shows P cares about you | 37.8 | 63.4 | 28.3 | 38.4 | 42.7 |
| Whether using condom shows how much you care about P | 51.2 | 43.8 | 22.6 | 34.1 | 39.4 |
| Getting (her) pregnant | 22.9 | 27.0 | 37.5 | 46.6 | 37.2 |
| What condoms say about trust | 33.1 | 37.5 | 28.3 | 33.6 | 33.8 |
| Whether you wanted a baby | 24.1 | 24.3 | 32.5 | 34.0 | 30.0 |
| Whether P would listen if you brought up using a condom | 37.0 | 29.5 | 26.4 | 28.4 | 30.6 |
| Wanting to be in control | 18.1 | 24.1 | 9.4 | 22.3 | 20.3 |
| Whether using condoms says about strength of relationship | 16.5 | 20.5 | 11.3 | 20.4 | 18.5 |
| Wanting to keep P from knowing about another partner | 6.3 | 12.5 | 13.2 | 28.4 | 17.7 |
| Whether P would object if you wanted to use a condom | 22.0 | 9.8 | 13.2 | 14.7 | 15.3 |
| How easy or hard it was to bring up using a condom | 13.4 | 12.5 | 3.8 | 13.7 | 12.3 |
| P getting angry if you wanted to use a condom | 8.7 | 8.9 | 17.0 | 14.7 | 12.1 |
| Angry if P wanted to use a condom | 5.5 | 2.7 | 57 | 8.5 | 6.2 |
| Lust (romance) | |||||
| Condoms affecting pleasure | 40.2 | 48.2 | 37.7 | 36.5 | 40.2 |
| Condoms affecting romance | 33.9 | 33.9 | 28.3 | 31.3 | 32.2 |
| Condoms affecting foreplay | 21.3 | 31.2 | 18.9 | 20.8 | 23.1 |
| Condoms affecting erection | 24.4 | 26.8 | 13.2 | 16.1 | 20.3 |
| G: Condoms being disgusting | 9.2 | 10.1 | 20.0 | 2.6 | 7.6 |
| Technical | |||||
| G: Actually knowing how to use the condom | 12.8 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 12.31 | 10.2 |
| G: How easy or hard condoms were to use | 10.1 | 8.3 | 10.0 | 7.9 | 8.8 |
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| Number of participants | 109 | 109 | 12 | 118 | 348 |
| Number of relationships described | 127 | 112 | 53 | 211 | 503 |
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Note:
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p<.05;
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p<.01;
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p<.001
“G:” refers to reasons asked only once of study participant. All other items were asked about each partner.
“The last time you thought about whether or not to use a condom, did you think about …?” (“P” is “partner”)