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Perceived family support regarding condom use and condom use among secondary school female students in Limbe urban city of Cameroon

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, February 2014
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Title
Perceived family support regarding condom use and condom use among secondary school female students in Limbe urban city of Cameroon
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BMC Public Health, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-14-173
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Elvis E Tarkang

Abstract

HIV/AIDS prevention programs rooted in the social cognitive models are based on the theoretical assumptions that adoption of preventive behaviour (condom use) depends on the individual's perceptions of their susceptibility to HIV/AIDS and the benefits of condom use. However some studies contend that applying such models in the African setting may not be that simple considering that in many societies, people's capacity to initiate health enhancing behaviour are mediated by power relations (parents/guardians) and socialisation processes that are beyond the control of individuals. The relative influence of these family forces on condom use is however unknown in Cameroon. In this study it is hypothesized that adolescents' perceptions of family support for condom use, would encourage condom use among female students in Limbe urban city of Cameroon.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 108 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 18%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 26 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 19%
Social Sciences 16 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Chemistry 4 4%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 31 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 March 2014.
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#7,384,130
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,774
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Outputs of similar age
#74,167
of 223,888 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#134
of 269 outputs
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