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Is AIDS Education Related to Condom Acquisition?

Arkansas Children's Hospital, 800 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72202

Anita A. Gottlieb, M.A.

Arkansas Children's Hospital, 800 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72202

M. Susan Jay, M.D.

Arkansas Children's Hospital, 800 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72202

The acquisition and subsequent use of condoms are two important behaviors that sexually active adolescents must adopt to reduce the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The aims of this study were: first, to evaluate whether combining prescriptions for free condoms with anticipatory guidance would increase the number of adolescents actually using the prescription-redemption plan; and second, to see if education about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) might make adolescents more willing to obtain an HIV blood test. Adolescents were randomly assigned to one of three groups, but only those who were sexually active were included in the data analyses. Each participant was given a prescription to be redeemed for free condoms at the hospital pharmacy, and each was privately offered a confidential, free HIV blood test. Education about AIDS did not increase the likelihood that adolescents would take the blood test, since only seven subjects did so. Our logistic regression model showed the most significant variables influencing a teenager to obtain condoms were gender, socioeconomic status, lifetime number of partners, and experimental condition. Anticipatory guidance concerning HIV promoted the use of the prescription-redemption plan especially among more sexually active males who come from middle-class families.

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