Abstract

GARCIA ALUM, Nury Esther et al. Attitudes related to the use of male condoms to the prevention of HIV/AIDS in medical students. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.3, pp.38-49. ISSN 1561-3194.

Immunodeficiency Acquired Syndrome has become into a complex phenomenon affecting an important number of adolescents and young population; the reduction of its transmission requires that actions of health promotion and health promotion to be taken in order to accomplish sexual safe habits and behaviors as well as organizing actions to modify attitudes and risky practices of infection. A descriptive study having a cross-sectional design was conducted; it was aimed at describing the attitudes related to the use of male condom to prevent HIV/AIDS in medical students at Medical University in Pinar del Rio. The target group was comprised of 300 students in the first academic course. The information was collected from a survey. Nominal qualitative variables were summarized through absolute and relative frequencies. Cognitive component of the students’s attitude was characterized by difficulties with knowledge related to the management of male condom and its efficacy in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Students knew about the different trades of condoms and the ways to collect information was through the mass media, medical studies and other written materials. Affective-behavioral component of the students in relation to HIV/AIDS was characterized by an active sexual life in early ages, where the no use of male condoms as protection was observed; despite the majority of students accepted their use.

Keywords : prevention; attitudes; young; medical students [classification].

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