Consistency Of Condom Use and Associated Factors Among Adolescent in Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024

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Introduction: Condom as an important family planning method. Condoms are playing a central role in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and unintended pregnancy particularly among young peoples. The transmission of STIs including HIV/AIDS can be prevented by almost 100% through correct and consistent condom use. Despite the continuous effort from the public and private sectors at various levels, its use among adolescent remains low. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the knowledge of correct condom use and factors associated among adolescent in Yeka sub city Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Objective: To assess consistency of condom use and associated factors among adolescent in Yeka sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: - community based cross sectional study design were employed. To obtain study subjects, the respondents were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Firstly, from11woredas in the Yeka sub-city, 4 woredas namely Yeka woreda 06, Yeka woreda 07, Yeka woreda 08, and Yeka woreda 05 selected simple randomly by lottery methods. Secondly, the number of adolescent that were included in the study determined proportionally in accordance with the total number of adolescent in the sampling frame of the selected woreda Self-administered questionnaires’ used to collect the data. Data were checked, and entered to Epi-data version 3.1, and then exported to SPSS (Statistical Package for Social science) version 25 for analysis. Result: Out of 422Adolescent, only 406 had participated in the study yielding a response rate of 96.2%. The prevalence of consistency of condom use among respondents was 17%. Factors that were independently associated with consistency of condom use in multivariate analysis were having sex (AOR=5.83, 95% CI: 2.45-13.90), secondary educational level & diploma above (AOR=2.55, 95% CI: 1.86-3.67), (AOR=6.15,95% CI:1.60-23.77), Average family monthly income (AOR=0.17,95% CI:0.04-0.73), pocket money (AOR=0.34,95% CI: 0.15-0.77),and Alcohol drunk (AOR=0.07,95% CI:0.02-0.24). Conclusion: In this study, consistent condom use among adolescent was low. Adolescent having educational status of secondary school and diploma &above, sex, family monthly income, pocket money had better consistent condom use.