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Predictors of Condom Use in Mexican Migrant Laborers
Author(s) -
Organista Kurt C.,
Organista Pamela Balls,
Bola John R.,
Javier E.,
García de Alba G.,
Morán Marco Antonio Castillo
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1023/a:1005191302428
Subject(s) - condom , snowball sampling , demography , public health , promotion (chess) , population , health psychology , medicine , family planning , social psychology , psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , family medicine , sociology , research methodology , political science , nursing , syphilis , pathology , politics , law
The purpose of this study was to explore predictors of condom use with occasional sex partners and regular sex partners, as well as carrying condoms in a new high‐risk group for HIV infection, Mexican migrant laborers. This study extends previous findings by (1) exploring additional predictors not previously examined, (2) utilizing a large sample of male and female Mexican migrant laborers, (3) carefully controlling for the effects of various demographic and lifestyle variables related to condom use, and (4) assessing the interactive effects of gender on predictors of condom use. Snowball sampling was used to survey 501 adult Mexican migrant laborers. Results revealed that condom use with occasional sex partners was predicted by carrying condoms and condom self‐efficacy and that women were more likely to use condoms with occasional partners when both men and women knew someone with HIV/AIDS. Condom use with regular sex partners was predicted by procondom social norms, less negative attitudes toward condoms, not knowing someone with HIV/AIDS, and condom self‐efficacy. Carrying condoms was predicted by procondom social norms, less negative attitudes toward condoms, condom self‐efficacy, worry about contracting HIV/AIDS, and women were more likely than men to carry condoms when both men and women were married. Understanding these findings, future research directions, and implications for condom promotion strategies with Mexican migrant laborers are discussed.