Social cognitive skills, such as self-efficacy and partner expected outcomes, are an important aspect of condom use behaviour.
Prevention programmes that seek to increase condom use should consider social cognitive constructs (such as self-efficacy and partner expected outcomes) as important mediators of condom use, and they should be included along with condom provision work to increase social cognitive skills.
Although ACTs were still effective in 2009 2010, this now heavily depends on efficacy of the partner drug.
In turn, decreasing efficacy of these partner drugs exposes the artemether or artesunate component of the ACT to selective pressure and could facilitate emergence of new foci of resistance to artemisinin, as observed in the Mekong region.
The pleiotropic effect of artemisinin pressure reported is a major concern for ACT-based drug policy because sustained pressure on artemisinin-resistant parasites may drive selection of artemisinin resistance in older parasite stages and result in decreased efficacy of the partner drug in the field.
2, 3 However, there is uncertainty as to the clinical importance of reduced bioavailability of lumefantrine when taken without fatty food, 4– 8 especially with evidence of resistance to artemisinin derivatives in adjacent Cambodia increasing the required contribution to efficacy by the partner drug.
We used multivariable modified Poisson regression models to examine the relationships among SCT constructs (sexual self-efficacy, self-control self-efficacy, self-efficacy with most recent partner, hedonistic outcome expectancies and partner expected outcomes) and self-reported condom use at last sex act at the 3-month follow-up study visit.
This preliminary study tested the efficacy of a partner-guided cancer pain management protocol for patients who are at the end of life.
The current study found multiparous women reported lower childbirth self-efficacy levels where partner support was lacking compared to first time mothers.
The results of our study support self-efficacy theory as proposed by Bandura [ 2] and Lowe [ 3] by demonstrating interactions between childbirth self-efficacy and parity, partner support, knowledge, and fear.
