| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 91 === Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand the safe sex behavior and related factor(s) of married women. The sample is randomly selected from a database center at the Department of Civil Services, city of Kaohsiung. Originally, there were 600 married women aged 20 to 49 years old were selected. Finally, there were 205 married women mailed back the questionnaire. The tools used in this study included: Social -demographic data, a Safe Sex Behaviors Scale, a AIDS knowledge Scale, a Self-Efficacy Scale which consists of Condom Self-Efficacy Subscale and Sexual Self-Efficacy Subscale, and a Sexual Relationship Power Scale which consisted of Relationship Control factor and Decision-
Making Dominance factor.
The computer software SPSS for windows 10.0 was used to analyze data. Percentile, standard deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Chi-square test, Person’s Correlation, and stepwise multiple regression analyses were used to analyze data.
The findings of this study were as following: (1) the index score for the safe sex practice among married women is 58, which is lower than those of most foreign countries; (2) the older the women, the lower safe sex practice score they had. The higher the educational level, the better safe sex practice among married women; (3) the married women with higher score of AIDS knowledge presented higher score on safe sex practice; (4) there is no significant relationship between condom self-efficacy and safe sex practice. However, the better safe sex practice is seen among the married women who had higher sore on Sexual self-efficacy; (5) there is no significant relationship between relationship control factor and safe sex practice. The married women who had higher decision making score had better safe sex practice; (6) the important predictors of safe sex practice were AIDS knowledge and Sexual Self-Efficacy which accounted for 44.9% of total variance of safe sex practice.
The findings of this study can be used as a reference for further research in the field of health education in AIDS prevention for married women.
Key words: Safe sex behavior, AIDS knowledge, Self-efficacy, Sexual relationship power
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