title: Unprotected sex among African-American adolescents: a three-year study.
abstract: This study examined the cumulative change of unprotected sex over a period of three years among 383 African American youth ages 9 to 15 at baseline who participated in a trial of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk reduction intervention. Cumulative scores of sexual intercourse and failure to use condoms were compared between intervention and control groups. The results indicate that cumulatively over the three-year period, intervention youth reported significantly lower rates of failure to use a condom. The findings indicate that face-to-face interventions may offer significant cumulative protection from unprotected sex over the long-term.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown 26506-9214, USA. xli@hsc.wvu.edu
authors.forename: Xiaoming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Bonita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stanton
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feigelman
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galbraith
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D021841:Safe Sex / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*