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Martha E. Givaudan Moreno Precursors of protective sexual behavior in Mexican youth Development and longitudal evaluation of an intervention |
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School based HIV/Aids prevention programs represent one of the most efficient channels for influencing adolescents. This thesis includes theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of health intervention programs in the field of sexual education. The first aim of the study was to develop and test an explanatory theoretical models of the predictors of safe-sex behaviors among Mexican adolescents most of whom had no sexual experience. The explanatory resultant models showed that the main precursor variables of safe sex behaviors for Mexican high school students without sexual experience were partner communication and intentions to use condoms. The second aim was to implement and evaluate, based on the explanatory theoretical model, a life skills and sexual education program for adolescents. Significant differences between the control and experimental groups were found. The intervention had a significant effect on knowledge and attitudes, as well as psychological predictor variables related to active prevention. The study confirms the need to design integral strategies based on life-skills as well as the mediator and moderator variables included the model, to strengthen early preventive HIV/Aids interventions that can be implemented through schools. Martha Givaudan Moreno (1956) studied Psychology at the National Autonomous University if Mexico (UNAM). As of 2000, she conducted her PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. This book presents the results from her PhD research on an HIV/Aids preventive intervention for high school students. Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Identifying precursors of safe sex practices in Mexican adolescents with and without sexual experience: an exploratory model 3. Early effects of a school-based life skills and HIV prevention program for high school Mexican adolescents 4. Longitudinal study of a school-based for HIV/Aids prevention for Mexican adolescents 5. Epilogue Summary Samenvatting (Summary in Dutch) Bestel/Order |
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