title: A concept analysis of self-efficacy and adolescent sexual risk-taking behavior.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Concept Analysis: Self-efficacy and Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors of Adolescents
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the concept of self-efficacy and adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using the Walker and Avant framework of concept analysis, the concept of self-efficacy has shown to be an important part in changing unhealthy behaviors. It has also shown that the concept of self-efficacy can be pivotal in health promotion activities of adolescents in a variety of settings, especially as it relates to adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The concept of self-efficacy as it relates to adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors has clear nursing implications and usage among the adolescent population. Self-efficacy is a key concept to be used in health promotion. Health promotion activities are pivotal in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in the adolescent population. Knowledge of the self-efficacy level of the adolescent patient can give the nurse greater insight in the meaning of the patient's response in a given situation. This also helps the nurse identify which adolescents would benefit from early intervention with regard to sexual health.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Nursing and Pediatric Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; Department of Nursing, CUNY The Graduate Center, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jenkins
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003210:Concept Formation; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D012309:Risk-Taking; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Best practices; concept analysis; women's health