Contraceptive use and associated factors among adolescents on Santiago Island - Cape Verde - Western Africa

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil

Carlos Mendes Tavares¹  Néia Schor¹  Ivan França Junior¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Saúde Pública São Paulo SP ,Brasil

关键词: Sexual initiation;    Sexual and reproductive health;    Cape Verde;    Africa;    Western;    Início da vida sexual;    Saúde sexual e reprodutiva;    Cabo Verde;    África Ocidental;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1519-38292010000200010

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: to estimate the prevalence of contraceptive use and associated factors among adolescents attending public schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was carried out with 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13-17years attending eight public elementary and high schools, randomly selected, on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, between January and March 2007. Poisson regression with robust variance was used for the multiple analysis of risk factors, at a 5% level of significance. RESULTS: among 368 adolescents, 69.3% reported having used a contraceptive method during the last act of sexual intercourse. The most frequently used method were condom (94.9%) and pill (26.4%). Factors significantly and positively associated with contraceptive use were: living in the capital (PR=1.23; CI95%: 1.07; 1.39); having dated and had sexual intercourse (PR =1.53; CI95%: 1.14;2.06); and having more than nine years of schooling (PR=1.19; CI95%: 1.02; 1.38). CONCLUSIONS: more educated adolescents who studied in Praia (the capital city) and were dating at the time of the study were more likely to use contraception. The high prevalence of condom use and the association between contraception use and years of schooling among adolescents may indicate that sexual and reproductive health policies have produced positive outcomes that may account for the decrease in HIV infection.

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