University Daily Kansan / Monday, Aug. 28, 1989 9B Teens like comfort of condoms STD control not factor in choice, study finds The Associated Press CHICAGO - Teen-sagers who choose condoms instead of other forms of contraception do so primarily because they are convenient to use and allow spontaneous sex, a study has found. Researchers are concerned that although sexually transmitted diseases are rampant among teens, most youths think they are immune. When they do use condoms, they are more concerned with comfort and ease of use than they are with the prevention of disease. The findings come amid a push by health professionals to curb the disease rate as well as teen pregnancies by encouraging condom use. The findings indicate that the approach should be geared more toward concerns expressed by youths in the study, Susan Kegeles, the leading researcher, said last week. She said health professionals were concerned that the same type of sexual behavior, frequent sex with multiple partners, that led to diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis was putting teens at risk of developing AIDS. "We know right now that 20 percent of people who have AIDS are in their 20s," and since the disease usually isn't diagnosed until years after exposure, "most of those people in their 20s probably contracted it when they were teen-agers," said Kegeles, a research psychologist at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California's San Francisco campus. Health factors are the most emphasized in trying to get teens to use condoms. Kegeles said. "But what we found was that although they knew that condoms prevented disease, that wasn't con- fidence. They were so insecure." To further encourage dom use cond, Kegeles said health professionals should also emphasize spontaneity, ease of cond use and shared responsibility for contraception. Though other forms of birth control were not addressed in the condom survey, the issues of comfort and ease cited by teens would relate to a choice of condoms over three other forms of contraception: the diaphragm, birth-control pills and withdrawal. The study's authors wrote, "Among male adolescents, as was found with female adolescents, the intention to use condoms in the next year was not associated with believing that condoms prevented STDs or that condoms were effective in preventing pregnancy." Condoms being easy to use and enabling one to have spontaneous sex contributed to the intention to use them among both sexes, the study said. "Likewise, for both sexes, believing that conduc use is popular with peers encouraged their use," the study said. Charles Wibbleman, chief of the teen-age clinic at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, one of the clinics in the study, said teens did not identify themselves as an at-risk group. The mean age of the girls was 15.7 years and of the boys, 16.2 years. Thirty-two percent of the girls and 43 percent of the boys were virgins. Of those who were sexually active, 59 percent of the girls and 63 percent of the boys had used condoms. The study, published in the August issue of Chicago-based American Journal of Diseases of Children, is based on surveys of 508 young men and women treated two health clinics in the San Francisco area. Their attitude is "It's not going to happen to me," he said in a telephone interview. That attitude has contributed to the high rate of sexually transmitted diseases among teen-sayers, Wibbleman and others. The latest statistics from the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta show that among those ages 15 to 19, 185,312 cases of gonorrhea were reported in 1888, or 1,075.3 cases per 100,000. In addition, at least one million adolescent pregnancies are reported each year. 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