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      Variables relacionadas con respuestas inconsistentes en una encuesta sobre relaciones sexuales realizada a estudiantes de Santa Marta, Colombia Translated title: Variables Related to Inconsistent Answers in a Survey About Sexual Intercourses Among Students in Santa Marta, Colombia

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          Antecedentes: la encuesta autoadministrada es la forma más usada y confiable para investigar comportamientos relacionados con la salud en adolescentes. Por lo general, un grupo significativo de participantes responde de forma inconsistente a algunos puntos de tópicos relacionados, particularmente con temas sensibles; en consecuencia, dichos puntos deben ser eliminados del análisis. Hasta la fecha, no se han comparado extensamente las características demográficas de los estudiantes que responden y los que no responden consistentemente una encuesta. Objetivo: comparar algunas variables demográficas relacionadas con respuestas inconsistentes sobre comportamiento sexual en estudiantes de secundaria de Santa Marta, Colombia. Método: una muestra probabilística por conglomerados de estudiantes diligenció una encuesta anónima sobre relaciones sexuales. Se usó regresión logística para ajustar las variables de la encuesta en las cuales se respondió de forma inconsistente. Resultados: un total de 3813 estudiantes completó la encuesta. Un grupo de 3 575 estudiantes (93,8%) respondió de forma consistente a los puntos sobre comportamiento sexual y uno de 238 (6,2%) respondió de forma inconsistente. Después de ajustar por estrato socioeconómico se evidenció que los estudiantes que con mayor frecuencia respondieron inconsistentemente eran varones (OR=2,1; IC95% 1,6-2,8) y pertenecían a colegios privados (OR=3,5; IC95% 2,6-4,8). Conclusiones: aproximadamente uno de cada veinte estudiantes responde de forma inconsistente las preguntas sobre comportamiento sexual. Las respuestas inconsistentes están relacionadas con estudiantes de colegios privados y sexo masculino. Se necesitan más investigaciones.

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          Background: Self-reported questionnaires are the more common and reliable method to investigate health-related behaviors among adolescents. Often, a significant number of participants report inconsistencies in several related items, especially sensitive topics, and they must be omitted. Up to date, it has not extensively compared the demographic characteristics of students that answer consistent and not consistently a paper-pencil survey. Objective: To compare some characteristics related to inconsistent answers about sexual behavior among students of secondary school at Santa Marta, Colombia. Method: A probabilistic cluster simple of students completed an anonymous survey about sexual relationship. Logistic regression was used for adjusting associated variables to answer inconsistently questions about sexual behavior. Results: A total of 3813 students completed the survey. A group of 3575 participants (93.8%) reported consistent information about sexual behavior; and 238 (6.2%) did not. Students that completed inconsistently the survey about sexual behavior were more frequently attending to private school (OR=3.5; 95%CI 2.6-4.8) and boys (OR=2.1; 95%CI 1.6-2.8), after adjusting for socioeconomic level. Conclusions: Approximately one out of twenty students completed inconsistently inquires about sexual behavior. Inconsistent answers about sexual behavior were higher in private school and male students. More investigation is needed.

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            The present research investigated the cognitive processes involved in responding to self-report items under varying conditions of social desirability. Participants in three experiments judged the extent to which a set of items (personality traits in Experiments 1 and 2; behaviors in Experiment 3) described them under instructions that either increased or decreased concerns with social desirability. Under most conditions, instructions that produced the greatest concern with social desirability resulted in the longest response times. This finding is consistent with the view that social desirability operates as an editing process; participants retrieve the requested information and then evaluate it before responding. There was also some evidence for individual differences in social desirability; participants scoring high on the trait of self-deception were generally faster at making these judgments than were participants scoring low on self-deception.
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                Journal
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                Revista Ciencias de la Salud
                Rev. Cienc. Salud
                Editorial Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, D:C:, Colombia )
                1692-7273
                2145-4507
                April 2009
                : 7
                : 1
                : 28-36
                Affiliations
                [01] Bogotá orgnameInstituto de Investigación del Comportamiento Humano campoarias@ 123456comportamientohumano.org
                [03] orgnameUniversidad del Magdalena orgdiv1Grupo de Estudio del Suicidio y Conductas de Riesgo Sexual gceballos@ 123456unimagdalena.edu.co
                [02] orgnameUniversidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga orgdiv1Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud ldiaz6@ 123456unab.edu.co
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                S1692-72732009000100003 S1692-7273(09)00700103
                41481d4d-cf77-4097-b7f1-e5e640d96141

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 15 September 2008
                : 16 March 2009
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                Sexual behavior,estudios transversales,adolescentes,estudiantes,cuestionario,relaciones sexuales,cross-sectional study,adolescents,students,questionnaires

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