Use of the male condom by heterosexual adolescents and young people: literature review

East, Leah; Jackson, Debra; O’Brien, Louise; Peters, Kathleen

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04337.x

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“…Specifically, for many of the young people in our study having a trusting relationship with one partner was their preferred strategy (Mooney-Somers et al 2009b). Previous research has highlighted the association between condoms and casual partners or condoms and new partners (East et al 2007) where continued use in longer-term partnerships or relationships where familiarity and trust has been built becomes problematic. Condom free sex signifies trust and abandoning condoms in a relationship becomes a symbolic marker of love and commitment (Hillier et al 1999;Kirkman et al 1998).…”

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Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives

Mooney-Somers

Olsen

Erick

et al. 2011

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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The Indigenous Resilience Project is an Australian community-based participatory research project using qualitative methods to explore young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's views of blood borne viral and sexually transmitted infections (BBV/STI) affecting their communities. In this paper we present an analysis of narratives from young people who had a previous BBV/STI diagnosis to explore how they actively negotiate the experience of BBV/STI infection to construct a classic resilience narrative. We examine two overarching themes: first, the context of infection and diagnosis, including ignorance of STI/BBV prior to infection/diagnosis; and second, turning points and transformation in the form of insights, behaviours, roles and agency. Responding to critical writing on resilience theory, we argue that providing situated accounts of adversity from the perspectives of young Indigenous people prioritises their subjective understandings and challenges normative definitions of resilience.

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Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives

Mooney-Somers

Olsen

Erick

et al. 2011

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…[32][33][34][35] Some qualitative research reports that condoms symbolize infidelity, disease status, and mistrust, which acts as a barrier to continued condom use in long-term and committed relationships. [36][37][38][39][40] Although condom use has not been found to explain racial disparities in HIV or STI prevalence, 41,42 it is still a crucial behavior change goal. African Americans living in high HIV prevalence areas would have to achieve a much higher level of condom use across all partnership types to halt the heterosexual HIV epidemic and diminish racial disparities.…”

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Condom Use and Concurrent Partnering among Heterosexually Active, African American Men: A Qualitative Report

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African Americans are overrepresented among heterosexual cases of HIV/ AIDS in the USA. Inconsistent condom use and concurrent partnering are two sexual behaviors driving the heterosexual HIV epidemic in the African American community. To inform the development of an HIV prevention behavioral intervention to decrease concurrent partnering and increase condom use among African American heterosexual men, we conducted formative research, including 61 structured interviews, 5 focus groups with 25 men, and 30 in-depth qualitative interviews between July and December 2009. We used a grounded theoretical approach and categorizing strategies to code and analyze the qualitative data. Results around condom use confirmed earlier findings among heterosexual men in general: condoms diminish pleasure, interfere with erection, and symbolize infidelity. Although valued by some as a form of disease prevention and pregnancy prevention, condoms are often used only with specific types of female partners, such as new or casual partners, or due to visual risk assessment. Sex partner concurrency was described as normative and ascribed to men's "natural" desire to engage in a variety of sexual activities or their high sex drive, with little recognition of the role it plays in the heterosexual HIV epidemic. Fatherhood emerged among many men as a crucial life event and compelling motivation for reducing sexual risk behavior. Based on these results, we conclude that existing HIV prevention efforts to improve attitudes towards and motivate use of condoms either have not reached or have not been successful with African American heterosexual men. In designing behavioral interventions to decrease concurrent partnering and increase condom use, addressing negative attitudes towards condoms and partner risk assessment is critical, as is integrating novel motivational approaches related to identity as fathers and men in the African American community.

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“…Where research has been conducted amongst youths of both genders, it suggests that boys have some of the same concerns as girls such as visibility in accessing services and the need for confidentiality 17,18 , but also that boys have different approaches to responsibility for 4 contraception 16,19,20 . Other research 21,22 highlights the difficulties for both genders in negotiating condom use, and for young women in particular, the successful negotiation of safe sex is less likely when confounded by notions of romantic love 23 .…”

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Why don't teenagers use contraception? A qualitative interview study

Brown¹,

Guthrie²

2010

The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. To investigate the causes of unintended pregnancies and in particular, reasons for non-use of contraception among young women attending a day unit for surgical abortion. Methods:Women between the ages of 16 and 20 attending a day unit at a hospital in the north of England who were due to have, or had recently had, a surgical abortion were interviewed about their knowledge of and views on contraception, sex education, and sexual health services. Twenty-four young women were interviewed, 22 on the day unit, one in her home and one over the phone, after the abortion. Interviews were recorded with the consent of the interviewees and fully transcribed. Transcripts were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Results:The most common reasons for non-use of contraception related to forgetting or "not thinking", being "in the moment" (i.e.,being "in the mood", not wishing to "break a spell"), the influence of alcohol, and pressure from young men not to use condoms. Lack of knowledge was rarely cited as a reason. Conclusions:Young people are aware of the need to use contraception, and knowledgeable about its availability; however, they often do not think about using it, especially where sex is unplanned. Alcohol and being "in the moment" are key factors which diminish the likelihood of contraceptive use.

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Use of the male condom by heterosexual adolescents and young people: literature review

Cited by 72 publications

References 52 publications

Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives

Learning from the past: young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives

Condom Use and Concurrent Partnering among Heterosexually Active, African American Men: A Qualitative Report

Why don't teenagers use contraception? A qualitative interview study

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