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An elicitation study of the condom use behaviour and intentions of migrants youth in South Africa

Includes bibliographical references. / Cross border migration is an ordeal that forces migrants in vulnerable situation and compromise their ability to negotiate preventive health care choices. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that influence behavioural intentions and attitudes of young migrants in Cape Town South Africa towards condom use. The study is a qualitative study that utilized purposive sampling and snow balling as its methodology to investigate and obtained findings to the intentions of migrants’ behaviour. It employed in-depth open-ended questions developed for interviews in English. Participants consisted of 20 young migrants in the 18-35year cohort. The 20 respondents are from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo respectively. The 20 samples consisted of; 13 males and seven females; 10 singles and 10 married; nine single males and one single female; six married females and 4 married males.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/13005
Date January 2014
CreatorsTantoh, Aunt Manyongo Mosima
ContributorsJohn-Langba, Johannes
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Social Development
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MSocSc
Formatapplication/pdf

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