Correlates of condom use and condom‐use motivation among young South Africans |
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| Authors: | Hannah Devine‐Wright Charles Abraham Hans Onya Susan Ramatsea Mahlapahlapana Themane Leif Edvard Aarø |
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| Institution: | 1. Placewise Ltd, Cullompton, Devon;2. University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon;3. Health Promotion Unit, School of Public Health, University of Limpopo, Polokwane;4. Department of Health Promotion and Development, Faculty of PsychologyUniversity of Bergen;5. Division of Mental HealthNorwegian Institute of Public Health |
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| Abstract: | A survey of South African secondary school students aged 12–17 years (n = 893) included measures designed to investigate relationships between beliefs about HIV/AIDS, condom use, interpersonal relationships, and two dependent measures: motivation to use condoms and reported condom use. We predicted that motivation would be an important correlate of reported condom use and that traditional cultural beliefs included in social cognition models would predict condom use motivation. Hierarchical multiple regression showed that 10% of the variance in reported condom use was accounted for by condom use motivation and age. Condom self‐efficacy, beliefs about condoms and injunctive norms accounted for much of the variance. Other beliefs included susceptibility to HIV and attribution of HIV to asexual sources such as witchcraft indicating that an expanded model of modifiable cognitions may be optimal when designing HIV interventions among young South Africans. |
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