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Attitude towards condoms predicts intention of use in college males

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 13th, 2005

Attitude towards condoms predicts the intention of use in college males.

"A questionnaire was administered to 294 sexually active, unmarried undergraduate students to investigate the role of social norms in the prediction of the intention to use condoms.

"Components of social cognitive theory and the theory of reasoned action and planned behavior were integrated with those of the Health Belief Model to predict future intention to use condoms with a new partner," investigators in South Africa report.

"Logistic regression analyses of selected risky sexual behaviors on the intention to use condoms showed that, among males, attitudes...

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