Correlates of condom coupon redemption among urban sexually transmitted disease clinic patients.

ABSTRACT

PIP: In this study, condom coupon redemption (CR) rates were examined for male and female condoms. The study also explored the relationship between demographic and sexual behavior characteristics and CR and describes male and female participants requesting female condoms. The participants of this study were 100 patients, 55 male and 45 female, recruited from STD clinics by means of posted advertisements. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the association between sexual risk factors, unprotected sexual intercourse, recent multiple sexual partners, STDs, and CR. Demographic screening revealed that 39% of the 100 participants redeemed coupons and females were more likely to redeem coupons than males. No association was found between sexual risk behavior and CR. Redeemers were slightly less sexually active than nonredeemers. Among coupon redeemers, 65% of women and 44% of men reported that they used the female condom at least once and 64% said that the device was easy to insert. Non-Latino women were the predominant users of female condoms, and more Latino men requested female condoms. This study found that there was no association between sexual risk behaviors and CR. CR, incorporating both condom types, would then provide a stronger measure of consumer preference of one type over the other.