“Safe Sex Talk:” Negotiating Safe Sex Practices in Heterosexual Relationships

Teaching safe sex practices to psychiatric patients.

An occupational therapist presented her 45-minute program called AIDS Education and Safe Sex 5 times to female mental patients in the locked ward of Cedarcrest Regional Hospital in Newington, Connecticut, to inform them about safe-sex practices and AIDS. She first administered a pretest then spoke briefly about AIDS and safe-sex practices. The lecture emphasized various important points such ...

Modeling The Erosion of Safe Sex Practices

As starting hypothesis, we argue that the erosion of safe sex practices for people having frequent change of sexual partner might be explained in terms of two mechanisms: instrumental conditioning through “reward” (greater sexual pleasure) following unprotected sex and misperception of the risk to become infected by HIV due to low infectivity of HIV and long delays (long latency and incubation ...

After safe sex, safe surgery?

Robinson et al found no benefit between those who were treated with steroids and those who were not.'" The results of further studies in patients suffering from combined burns and smoke inhalation injury suggest that giving steroids leads to increased mortality and morbidity, mainly because infection occurs more often." 12 Early treatment of smoke inhalation focuses on keeping the upper airways...

Safe sex and women.

Descriptive Study of Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices toward Safe Sex in Niger Delta University in, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Background & aim: Spread of sexually transmitted infections can be controlled with enhancing the knowledge and correcting the attitudes of students regarding the right and consistent use of contraceptive methods, and being in monogamous sexual relationships. This study aimed to compare thestudents’ knowledge, attitudes, and safe sex practices between nursing and non-nu...