KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEFS ABOUT THE MALE CONDOM IN STUDENTS OF UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DEL PERU

Abstract

Diverse and recent studies indicate that the information brings over of the importance of the use of the condom (preservative) in the prevention of the ITS and the AIDS is known enough and accepted. Nevertheless it is known also by the same studies that this information is not reflected necessarily in the use of the masculine condom in his sexual practices, this owes to that many myths and prejudices survive even in itd utilization and to the distorted information obtained of undignified sources (fountains). Our locality is not exempt from this problematic for which it becomes necessary to know that they handle information about the masculine condom, likewise on the beliefs related to the masculine condom. The problem of the investigation was which is the level of knowledge and which beliefs the students of the UNCP have about the masculine condom?, general aim: To determine the level of knowledge and the beliefs that UNCP students have on the masculine condom, and the hypothesis: The students of the UNCP possess a level of insufficient knowledge and the beliefs that have are unfavorable about masculine condom. The study  was descriptive, transversely, the technologies that were in use were the structured survey and the focal group. The population was constituted by the students of all the faculties of the UNCP being a number of 8753 and the sample of 406 students. The conclusions at which we arrived were 1) The pupils of the UNCP have sufficient knowledge on the condom, 2) the pupils of the UNCP have unfavorable beliefs of the masculine condom.