[Attitudes of women and men toward condoms]

The authors used a ten-item test of attitudes to condoms for enquiries among 200 patients (100 women and 100 men). The attitudes of women were more frequently negative (22.5%) than the attitudes of men (16%). Women also replied less frequently in a positive way to questions of the test than men (42% as compared with 48.5%). Seventy-two respondents (30 women and 42 men) had no experience with condoms, 92 had a single experience (50 women and 42 men) and only 36 respondents (20 women and 16 men) used at least occasionally condoms frequently. Greater experience with condoms increases the positive evaluation of this contraceptive.