Friday 15 April 2011

Reviews on Article 2

Preventing AIDs and other STDs through condom promotion: A patient education intervention
Condoms are one of the most important in AIDs campaigns launched to promote the use of condoms to gay community, prostitutes, female partners of drug users, bisexuals, and individuals with multiple sex partners. Hence, in 1989, Mildred, Solomon, and DeJung carried out a research to determine whether of education and accessibility to free condoms increases the use of condoms.
Participants came from two different groups of people. A group receives education to provide knowledge and the right attitude towards the use of condoms and another group were given accessibility to free condoms. The first group were shown a video, featuring a story of a young black woman who have had two cases of gonorrhea and recently returned from hospital because of pelvic inflammatory disease. Her brother and girlfriend, who are sexually attractive and sexually active adviced her to persuade her boyfriend to use condom by communicating successfully with good grace and humour. Meanwhile, the second group consists of patients from Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic at Boston City Hospital were given coupon to redeem free condoms.
Research shows that both education and accessibility increases the usage of condoms. In addition, STD patients who are given coupon to redeem free condoms are more likely to redeem the free condom after watching the video show to the first group. This supports the idea that education coupled with accessibility to condoms could increase the usage of condoms, and hence, may prevent STD like AIDs.(Mildred, Solomon &DEJong, 1989)

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