Sexual attitudes and practices amongst schoolchildren aged 10-16 years in Barbados - abstract
West Indian med. j
; West Indian med. j;40(suppl.1): 23, Apr. 1991.
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ABSTRACT
A 9 percent systematic sample of all secondary schoolchildren in Barbados completed a self-administered questionnaire as part of a knowledge, attitudes and practices survey on knowledge about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The questions pertaining to sexual attitudes and practices are presented in this paper. Basic knowledge was good with 92 percent knowing that AIDS is a deadly disease and 89.5 percent that it is sexually transmitted 27.8 percent of children thought that they should have sex before marriage or settling with one partner, and 51.4 percent of the boys and 18.5 percent of the girls said they were sexually acitve; 66.1 percent of sexually active children reported two or more partners in their lives and this percentage fell to 25.5 percent in the past year. Over three-quarters of sexually active children said they knew how to use a condom, boys 320 (78 percent) claimed more skills than girls 127 ( 68 percent) in this area. Sexual attitudes and practices among schoolchildren are important in the AIDS epidemic as many AIDS patients are in the 19-26-year age range. With a 10-year asymptomatic period between initial infection and clinical manifestations, the virus was probably acquired in their years in school (AU)
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Sexual
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Barbados
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Idioma:
En
Revista:
West Indian med. j
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article
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Congress and conference