HIV/STD prevention benefits of living in supportive families: a prospective analysis of high risk African-American female teens.
The relationship between family and sexual activity-related factors were measured among 522 African American adolescent girls recruited from schools and clinics in Birmingham, Alabama. Girls living with a mother in a supportive family were more likely to use condoms when having sex, less likely to have recent emotional abuse from their sex partners, less fear and higher self-efficacy in negotiating use of a condom, and fewer partner-related barriers to safer sex.
Crosby
Richard A
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Departments of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Fifth Floor, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
DiClemente
Ralph J
RJ
Wingood
Gina M
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Harrington
Kathy
K
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000407:Alabama; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D021841:Safe Sex / Q000208:ethnology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012944:Social Support