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Effects of a School‐Based Life Skills and HIV‐Prevention Program for Adolescents in Mexican High Schools 1
Author(s) -
Givaudan Martha,
Van de Vijver Fons J. R.,
Poortinga Ype H.,
Leenen Iwin,
Pick Susan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00206.x
Subject(s) - condom , human sexuality , psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , safer sex , sexuality education , social psychology , path analysis (statistics) , developmental psychology , sex education , medical education , family medicine , medicine , gender studies , sociology , statistics , mathematics , syphilis
A school‐based life skills and sexuality education HIV/AIDS program for adolescents was evaluated in Toluca, Mexico, through a quasi‐experimental pre–post design with 1,566 cases, divided over a control group and an experimental group. Based on a previously tested path model, 3 levels of variables were included as a guide for the contents of the program: personal variables (self‐knowledge, self‐efficacy regarding condom use, and decision making), intervening variables (subjective norms about, knowledge about HIV/AIDS, and attitudes toward condoms), and outcome variables (communication on sexuality and intentions to use condoms). Evaluation was conducted following these categories. Significant increases in all of these variables recognized as precursors of safer sex were found in the experimental group.