This study evaluated predictors of risky and safer behavior in a sample of low-income
African American adolescents, assessed their perceptions of the risk associated with their …

School-based condom distribution programs have generated considerable controversy
across the country. In the present study 249 sexually active African American adolescents …

Low income, urban, African-American, and Hispanic youth have been identified as a group
for which there is concern about the spread of HIV. Using data from a household probability …

Abstract African-American adolescents (N= 195) completed measures of knowledge related
to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), attitudes toward condoms, health locus of …

Condoms reduce the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission; however,
their use among adolescents has been inconsistent. Little is known about factors which …

This paper reports on the first qualitative part of a study designed to investigate factors
related to the use of condoms among African-American and Hispanic adolescents and …

The relation of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control to intentions to
use condoms was examined among 179 adolescents who completed a confidential self …

This paper discusses negative experiences with using condoms reported by the condom
user subsample of (n= 975) of a household probability sample of low income, urban, African …

In this survey, the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors concerning acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in a group (N= 196) of innercity adolescents in New …

Purpose: To identify the psychosocial and behavioral factors that influence condom use to
reduce the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among young men in …