Con quién hablan los adolescentes mexicanos sobre el SIDA

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"Objective. To establish whether certain characteristics ofthe young influence their choice of people with whom todiscuss AIDS. Material and Methods. A national surveywas conducted in 1997 by the Consejo Nacional para laPrevención y Control del SIDA (CONASIDA, MexicanCouncil for AIDS Prevention and Control). Study subjectswere 4886 male and female 15-19 year-old teenagers.Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze data.Results. A model including the variables sex, sexual activity,work conditions, and father’s schooling level, turned out tobe significant and highly predictive of people with whomteenagers discuss AIDS, as compared to teenagers speakingwith no one. Male teenagers discuss AIDS with theirfathers more than female teenagers, and female teenagersdiscuss AIDS more with their mothers. Sexually activeteenagers discuss AIDS more with their friends and lesswith their teachers than sexually inactive teenagers. Thegreater schooling level the father has, the more people teenagershave with whom to discuss AIDS and the more theydiscuss AIDS at home, compared to teenagers with fatherswithout schooling. Conclusions. Differentiated sexualeducation training strategies should be designed inaccordance with subpopulations’ characteristics. The Englishversion of this paper is available at: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html"