Condom use at last sexual intercourse and its correlates among males and females aged 15–49 years in Nepal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Sharma, Bimala ^a   Nam, Eun Woo ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Condom use; Correlates; Gender; HIV knowledge; Multiple sexual partners; Nepal; Sociodemographic factors

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; CORRELATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONDOM USE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SINGLE (MARITAL STATUS); CONDOM; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

NEPAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85044280658     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15030535     Document Type: Article

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