Authors
Katie V Newby, Katherine E Brown, David P French, Louise M Wallace
Publication date
2013/12
Journal
BMC Public Health
Volume
13
Pages
1-10
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
The prevalence of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection amongst young adults represents an important public health problem in the UK. Individuals’ attitude towards the use of condoms has been identified as an important determinant of behavioural intentions and action. The Theory of Planned Behaviour has been widely used to explain and predict health behaviour. This posits that the degree to which an individual positively or negatively values a behaviour (termed ‘direct attitude’) is based upon consideration of the likelihood of a number of outcomes occurring (outcome expectancy) weighted by the perceived desirability of those outcomes (outcome evaluation). Outcome expectancy and outcome evaluation when multiplied form ‘indirect attitude’. The study aimed to assess whether positive outcome expectancies of unprotected sex were more important for …
Scholar articles
KV Newby, KE Brown, DP French, LM Wallace - BMC Public Health, 2013