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The Role of Condom Use Self-Efficacy on Intended and Actual Condom Use Among University Students in Ghana

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Little attention has been paid to the dimensions that help to predict and understand condom use among university students within an African context. A cross-sectional study involving 518 university students in Accra, Ghana was conducted to determine how the Condom Use self-Efficacy Scale-Ghana (CUSES-G) can predict both actual condom use and future condom use. Of all the participants, 84 % were sexually active but less than half of the sample (48 %) reported to have used condom during their last sexual intercourse. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that components of the Condom Use Self-Efficacy Scale (CUESE-G) such as appropriation, assertiveness, pleasure and intoxication, and STDs predicted condom use and condom use intentions. Behavioural change campaigns targeting university students should encourage condom use self-efficacy, as this would strengthen condom use, which is economically cheap and practically effective means of preventing STIs including HIV.

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    Joseph Osafo & Paul N. Doku

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Oppong Asante, K., Osafo, J. & Doku, P.N. The Role of Condom Use Self-Efficacy on Intended and Actual Condom Use Among University Students in Ghana. J Community Health 41, 97–104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-015-0073-6

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