Publications
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Users' Attitudes About Sexually Transmitted Infections and Its Influence on Condom Use Vrije Universiteit Brussel Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp
Incidence rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising among men who have sex with men (MSM). Since the rollout of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), promoting condom use to prevent the spread of STIs has become more challenging. Using a mixed-method design, we explored MSM PrEP users' attitudes toward STIs, condoms, and condom use with nonsteady partners to prevent STIs. We triangulated data from 22 in-depth interviews ...
Correlates of condom use among sexually experienced secondary school male students in Nairobi, Kenya Institute of Tropical Medicine
This study aimed to examine perceptual factors associated with condom use, and the relationship between condom use and the timing of sexual debut among male secondary school students in Nairobi, Kenya. Data are from the TeenWeb study, a school-based project that used the World Wide Web to assess the health needs of secondary school students, and tested the webs utility as a teaching and research modality. Analyses are based on 214 Sexually ...
Condom use with steady partners among heterosexual people living with HIV in Europe: testing the information-motivation-behavioral skills model Institute of Tropical Medicine
A new measurement of an indirect measure of condom use and its relationships with barriers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
One of the challenges facing researchers in the domain of human immunodeficiency virus prevention is the assessment of condom use in an unbiased self-reported manner. The current study presents the development and preliminary validation of an indirect condom use test (I-CUTE), designed to assess condom use tendencies and to overcome self-report biases. Two samples were included using correlational designs. In sample 1, 88 students from ...
The effects of psychological inoculation on cognitive barriers against condom use in women with HIV: A controlled pilot study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The effects of psychological inoculation on condom use tendencies and barriers; a randomized controlled trial Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Objective: Condom use prevents the contraction of the HIV. Research shows limited effects of education on increasing condom use. Psychological inoculation (PI) has been found to be more effective in this domain, however, its mechanism is unknown. This study examined effects of PI versus education on condom use barriers and tendencies, and its relations with cognitive dissonance, using a fully automatized online system.Design: The study was a ...