Self-efficacy of condom uses and Sexual Assertiveness to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Indigenous Youth
Journal Title: Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito) - Year 2024, Vol 49, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: in 2020, 37.7 million people were living with HIV worldwide, with 1.5 million new infections and 680,000 related deaths. Young people, who account for 27% of new infections, face a high risk. Lack of education and early initiation of sexual life are factors that increase risk behaviors, while self-efficacy and sexual assertiveness are key elements for preventing infections.Objective: to determine the relationship between self-efficacy of condom use and sexual assertiveness for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in young people from an indi-genous community who have an active sexual life.Material and methods: descriptive correlational study with a final sample of 219 participants; 133 were men and 86 women. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used.Results and discussion: an average age of 17.53 years was obtained, high school education, of which 73.1% only studies and 26.9% studies and works, 41.1% re-port having parents who speak an indigenous language. The average age at the beginning of active sexual life (IVSA) was 15.89 years, as well as an average num-ber of sexual partners to date of 1.9, 70.3% reported currently having a partner and 30.1% stated they had been having a partner for more than six months. with your current partner. Conclusion: it is concluded that the relationship between condom use self-efficacy and sexual assertiveness (rs=0.89) has a positive relationship, and the beginning of an active sexual life is increasingly at younger ages
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Márquez -Vega María Aracely, Balché-Chuc Jorge Enrique
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- DOI 10.29166/rfcmq.v49i3.6786
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