2007
DOI: 10.1080/14034940701269654
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Sexual health among young adults in Finland: Assessing risk and protective behaviour through a general health survey

Abstract: Casual sex is common among young adults in Finland and often occurs without a condom. This study shows that it is feasible to incorporate sexual behaviour questions as part of a larger health survey offering an option for monitoring sexual behaviour when funding for large-scale HIV surveys is decreasing.

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“…Tras la lectura de los resúmenes seleccionados, se excluyeron 223 artículos más por no cumplir alguno de los criterios de inclusión. La muestra final de los estudios publicados en revistas contuvo 21 artículos sobre 17 estudios diferentes [6][7][8][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] .…”
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“…Tras la lectura de los resúmenes seleccionados, se excluyeron 223 artículos más por no cumplir alguno de los criterios de inclusión. La muestra final de los estudios publicados en revistas contuvo 21 artículos sobre 17 estudios diferentes [6][7][8][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] .…”
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“…Antes, los varones europeos se iniciaban sexualmente antes que las mujeres europeas. En los últimos años, las medias de edad de iniciación sexual de varones y mujeres se han aproximado en algunos países, como por ejemplo, en España 34 .E incluso, algunas encuestas realizadas en Suecia, Noruega, Finlandia, Gran Bretaña y Suiza indican que la proporción de mujeres que ha tenido relaciones sexuales supera a la de varones 18,19,[30][31][32] .…”
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“…This is even true when we compare our data with those published recently on sexual habits of Finnish women. Nikula et al (2007) composed a module of questions on sexual behaviour integrated into a population-based general-health survey in Finland. A representative sample of 1894 individuals aged between 18 and 29 years drawn from the population registry in 2001 was studied.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…27 %. This high prevalence may not be typical for the whole of Finland (Nikula et al, 2007). However, women enrolled in our study were all from the Turku area and were enrolled during 1998-2001.…”
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confidence: 99%