Unseen risks: HIV-related risk behaviors among ethnically diverse sexual minority adolescent females.
High rates of HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among lesbian and bisexual female adolescents have been documented. However, previous research has not adequately described racial/ethnic subgroup differences in risk behaviors within this population. We examined HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among an ethnically diverse sample of sexual minority girls (N = 244). Compared to their White peers, girls who identified their race/ethnicity as mixed had more than four times the odds of reporting both unprotected vaginal sex with a male and multiple male sex partners. All subgroups exhibited risk behaviors, indicating that sexual minority girls must be included in HIV-prevention efforts targeting adolescent females.
Brian C
BC
Thoma
David M
DM
Huebner
Jordan E
JE
Rullo
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006306:Health Surveys; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012306:Risk; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult