Contraception Behaviour
Mostrando 1-11 de 11 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Adolescence and sexual life: analysis of the sexual initiation among adolescents from the east area of the city of São Paulo / "Adolescência e vida sexual: análise do início da vida sexual de adolescentes residentes na zona leste do município de São Paulo"
Women and men initiate their sexual life in different ways mainly during adolescence. Sexual practices in youth have been described as dynamic and in constant transformation, though its profile should be considered as having an impact in reproductive health. This study aimed to analyse associated factors to the onset of sexual life and to describe the first
Publicado em: 2005
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2. Knowledge about contraceptives in a population aged 15 or more in a city from the South of Brazil / Anticoncepcional oral, ligadura de trompas e condom: caracterização do conhecimento da população de 15 anos ou mais em uma cidade do sul do Brasil.
A prevalência de uso de anticoncepcional no Brasil é alta, porém é freqüente seu uso incorreto e inadequado, sugerindo escasso conhecimento sobre os métodos. Assim, avaliou-se o conhecimento sobre métodos anticoncepcionais mais utilizados através de um escore (0-10) e fatores associados à este conhecimento. Foi realizado um estudo transversal de bas
Publicado em: 2004
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3. Não há guarda-chuva contra o amor: estudo do comportamento reprodutivo e de seu universo simbólico entre jovens universitários da USP. / There is no protection against love: study on the reproductive behaviour and its symbolic universe among USP young colege students.
O presente estudo teve por objetivo investigar as práticas e as representações ligadas à vida reprodutiva entre jovens universitários da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), especialmente aquelas dirigidas à contracepção e à prevenção de doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, no âmbito das relações heterossexuais.A pesquisa foi dividida em duas fas
Publicado em: 2002
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4. A comparison of sexual behaviour and risk behaviour for HIV infection between women in three clinical settings.
OBJECTIVE--To compare sexual behaviour and HIV risk behaviour between women in three clinical settings and to investigate the effect of socio-economic status and ethnic origin upon these behaviours. SUBJECTS AND METHODS--A questionnaire was administered to 1,950 women attending clinics for genitourinary medicine (GUM) family planning and termination of pregn
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5. Trends in female sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted diseases in London, 1982-1992.
OBJECTIVE--To measure changes in female sexual behaviour, including condom use, and their relationship with the incidence of sexually transmitted and other genital diseases in women during the decade 1982-92. DESIGN--A prospective series of cross-sectional surveys of sexual behaviour reported by a standardised self-administered questionnaire in new patients
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6. A survey of female prostitutes at risk of HIV infection and other sexually transmissible diseases.
OBJECTIVE--To determine risk factors for the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including injecting drug use (IDU), sexual behaviour and other sexually transmissible diseases (STDs), in female prostitutes who attended the Sydney Sexual Health (previously STD) Centre. DESIGN--We surveyed by questionnaire 231 (47%) of 491 female prostitutes wh
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7. Sexual behaviour among youth clinic visitors in Sweden: knowledge and experiences in an HIV perspective.
OBJECTIVE--To study the knowledge and experience of sexuality, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases among sexually active adolescents in Sweden. SUBJECTS--Youth clinic visitors. SETTING--Seventy-four youth clinics from all over the country of Sweden. METHODS--A questionnaire with 17 multiple choice and nine open questions was distributed to all vi
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8. Trends in sexual behaviour and HIV testing among women presenting at a genitourinary medicine clinic during the advent of AIDS.
Changes in female sexual behaviour with the advent of AIDS and safer sex campaigns were studied. Subjects were drawn from a wide social spectrum of women attending an STD clinic in West London where there is a high prevalence of HIV infection among homosexual men. Between 1982 and 1989, 4224 women answered a self-administered questionnaire: women who reporte
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9. Why do women doctors in the UK take hormone replacement therapy?
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To ascertain the determinants and experiences of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use by menopausal women doctors. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire. SETTING: UK. PATIENTS: A randomized stratified sample of women doctors who obtained full registration between 1952 and 1976, taken from the current Principal List of the UK Medical Register. MAIN
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10. Lifestyle and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis: cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption.
In a search for aspects of behaviour related to oral contraceptive use which might explain the favourable effect of oral contraception on the onset of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption were studied as possible risk factors. Information on cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption was obtained by interview at the first visit
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11. Chlamydia trachomatis and oral contraceptive use: a quantitative review.
OBJECTIVES--Chlamydia trachomatis is now recognised as a major sexually transmitted disease; oral contraceptive use is rapidly increasing particularly in developing countries. There are thus important public health implications of the many reports that isolation of C trachomatis is more frequent among users of oral contraceptives. The aim of this analysis wa