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Revista de Salud Pública
Print version ISSN 0124-0064
Abstract
QUIROZ-MORA, Carlos A. and VALENCIA-MOLINA, Claudia P.. Effectiveness of structural interventions to promote condom use in adolescents and young people: Systematic Review. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.4, pp.453-462. Epub Oct 10, 2020. ISSN 0124-0064. https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v22n4.85800.
Objective
Evaluate the effectiveness of structural or multicomponent interventions aimed at increasing the use of condoms in adolescents and young adults, identifying the strategies that form the interventions evaluated, and recognizing the theoretical models that support these interventions.
Methodology
Design: Systematic review of literature. Data source: MEDLINE databases were consulted via OVID, Embase, and CENTRAL in order to search for studies on interventions aimed at increasing the use of condoms in adolescents and young adults. Selection of studies: A total of 7 primary investigations were selected, in which the effect of a structured or multicomponent intervention to increase the use of condoms in adolescents and young adults was evaluated. The quality of the studies was evaluated using the Cochrane bias risk assessment.
Results
Five investigations show changes in the percentages of condom use with values between 53% and 68%. The interventions targeted guided their actions more at individual level with strategies such as sexual health education, reproductive health counseling, knowledge about the condom, knowledge about STIs / HIV, than at organizational and environ-mental levels, which were aimed at the provision of condoms. The theoretical models proposed in the studies are focused on human behavior, individual behavior, and social learning.
Conclusion
Structural interventions that aim to increase the use of condoms in adolescents and young adults seem to show significant changes at individual level, but possible changes generated at both organization and environment levels are unknown.
Keywords : Rogram evaluation; condoms; adolescent; young adult; systematic review (source: MeSH, NLM).