PURPOSE: To incorporate a behavioral model of health services utilization to examine
whether male adolescents' family, individual, sex education, and partner factors are …

Purpose: To examine how the relative power of adolescent sexual partners in the domain of
emotional intimacy is related to condom use. Methods: Interviewed 228 adolescents who …

PURPOSE: Consistent condom use is critical to efforts to prevent sexually transmitted
infections among adolescents, but condom use may decline as relationships and …

Although there is some evidence that relationship-level factors influence sexual behavior,
they have received far less attention than individual-level factors as potential correlates of …

Objective: To develop a multidimensional classification of sexual partnerships. Methods:
Eighty-two female subjects (ages 15–20 years; 77% African American) used coital logs to …

Purpose: To compare characteristics of sexual relationships in HIV infected and HIV
uninfected female adolescents and their association with condom use. Methods: HIV …

Purpose Assertive communication has been associated with higher levels of condom use
among youth using self-report survey methodology. The purpose of this study was to …

Objectives. We used Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory to identify factors that
predicted never or sometimes using condoms in a multiethnic cohort of adolescent mothers …

Objective: While representing only 25% of the sexually active population, 50% of all new
sexually transmitted infections occur among young people mostly because of inconsistent …

Background Adolescents involved with the criminal justice system are at particularly high-
risk for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and sexually transmitted infections. Purpose The …