The female condom: Effectiveness and convenience, not female control,” valued by US urban adolescents

MH Latka, F Kapadia, P Fortin - AIDS Education & Prevention, 2008 - Guilford Press
… the female condom was mapped. Girls consistently organized methods by, and thus were
concerned about, contraceptive effectiveness, … the female condom with the male condom rather …

Condom-use errors and problems: a neglected aspect of studies assessing condom effectiveness

R Crosby, S Sanders, WL Yarber… - American journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
… A convenience sample of 260 undergraduates was utilized. Males (n=118) and females (n=142)
reported using condoms … than females (37%) to report that condoms were not available …

Factors associated with use of the female condom in Zimbabwe

D Meekers, K Richter - International Family Planning Perspectives, 2005 - JSTOR
… Distribution has since expanded to other outlets, including large supermarkets, convenience
… who used the male condom (but not the female condom) and for condom nonusers. For the …

Comparative crossover study of the PATH Woman's Condom and the FC Female Condom®

JL Schwartz, K Barnhart, MD Creinin, A Poindexter… - Contraception, 2008 - Elsevier
… prevention strategy has not been fully evaluated. In female condom studies conducted over
… favorable mean scores in most individual parameters except for convenience of lubrication. …

The acceptability of the female and male condom: a randomized crossover trial

A Kulczycki, DJ Kim, A Duerr… - … on Sexual and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… because they do not find them acceptable or convenient. The female condom has been
mar… Our findings suggest that the female condom may not enjoy much acceptance for long-term …

The female condom: acceptability and perception among rural women in Zimbabwe

M Francis-Chizororo, NR Natshalaga - African Journal of Reproductive …, 2003 - JSTOR
… Interviews were arranged and carried out at periods that were convenient to the respondent
and in privacy to … The almost non-use of female condom suggested that the condom was …

Female condoms= missed opportunities: lessons learned from promotion-centered interventions

JL Maksut, LA Eaton - Women's Health Issues, 2015 - Elsevier
… between the female condom's documented effectiveness and … on efforts to promote the
female condom. The strategies that … they did not offer empirical data on female condoms. Two …

Acceptability of the female condom by sub-Saharan African women: a literature review

A Peters, F Van Driel, W Jansen - African journal of reproductive health, 2014 - ajol.info
… Such socially constructed ideas about female condoms have not been explicitly researched
for this article. However, evidence suggests that these can be restrictive and negative56,57. …

A validation and reduced form of the female condom attitudes scale

TB Neilands, KH Choi - AIDS Education and Prevention, 2002 - Guilford Press
… use of male or female condoms as needed, but not both … of the Inconvenience factor on
self-reported condom usage was … ) did not exhibit statistically significant impacts on self-reported …

“It's a different condom, let's see how it works”: young men's reactions to and experiences of female condom use during an intervention trial in South Africa

TB Masvawure, JE Mantell, Z Mabude… - The Journal of Sex …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… used the female condom; the remaining 17 did not attempt use. … female condom use were
convenience of use for men, curiosity to see how female condoms compared to male condoms, …