What is it about?
The analyses suggest a high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies associated to inconsistent condom use, medium-low level of knowledge about sexual health, low normative beliefs regarding peers’ condom use, and a certain perceived difficulty for using condoms.
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Why is it important?
Findings of this studie provide a better understanding of sexual risk and highlight important implications for the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents.
Perspectives
The studie emphasize the need to designing and implementing protocolized sexual health promotion programs in colombian schools with the aim of reducing sexual risk behaviors in Colombian adolescents.
Ms. Paola García-Roncallo
Universidad de la Costa, CUC
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This page is a summary of: Sexual risk among Colombian adolescents: knowledge, attitudes, normative beliefs, perceived control, intention, and sexual behavior, BMC Public Health, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-6311-y.
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