Grossman Article
Transtheoretical Model
Usage of Condoms among races
HIV
Theory of planned behavior
condom usage us different among adolescents in different groups
males obviously use more condoms than females
it is shown that younger teens are more likely to use condoms more than older ones and has everything to do with aging
African American and white teens use condoms more than hispanic youth
African American teens use more condoms and white teens
people under the age of 25 comprise nearly 50% of new HIV infections
it is crucial that people understand the health affects HIV has and how you can get, more education needs to arise in health issues like these, more people would be aware and practice safer sex
it is essential that to asses these health problems we need to properly examine the the factors associated with adolescents adoption of safer sex behaviors
researchers are trying to study behaviors and how deisions on using condoms to prevent HIV and STI's can be resolved
nearly 19 million STIs each year are in youth teens ages 19-25
subjected norms and peer norms are important factors related to change
and example of this is that the perception of eating a low fat diet has been associated with the remaining in the maintenance for phase for eating a low fat diet
condom use was used at a more later stage in life, but in inner-city health clincics, peer norms were not associated with transitions in a stage of change for condom behavior
the adoption of condom use is a behavior that often demands lots of communication and agreement between partners
Brown and colleagues found that among adolescents with hemophilia and infected with HIV, adolescent perception of of peer support for safer sex was associated with improvement and maintenance of safer sexual behavior
when individuals move towards maintence and postitive health behavior, their confidence to carry out the behavior increases
two factors that predict movement towards adopting of safer behavior are self efficiency and decisional balance
attempts to explain why individuals change and how this change can be predicted and facilitated
those who are pre-contemplation stage find more pros of engaging in behavior than, whereas people who are in the maintenance stage perceive greater pros
decisional balance or perceived pros and cons of behavior change