Studies show that positive family factors help protect adolescents from engaging in risky
sexual activities, but do they continue to protect adolescents as they transition to late …

PURPOSE:: National surveys have found that the percentage of female adolescents who
report condom use at last sex differs by age group. Using longitudinal data, the authors …

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

Few studies have investigated how mother and father support differ on predicting youths'
sexual risk behavior. We therefore examined the influence of parental support on condom …

This study examines the role of condom use knowledge and attitudes, and parent-teen
communication about sex and relationship quality on reports of condom use self-efficacy …

The purpose of this study was to examine ethnic differences in risk behaviors among
adolescents who attended family planning clinics and to evaluate the impact of parental …

Purpose This study examined the influence of parental marital status, parent‐child sexual
communication, parent‐child closeness on the HIV‐related knowledge, safer‐sex intentions …

We examined the direct contribution of parent and peer risk and promotive factors on youth
condom use trajectories, in addition to the indirect influence of these factors via youth's …

Abstract Context: Native American (Native) youth face high rates of substance use, teen
pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. Native communities are strengthened by …

Objective. We determined the association of demographic, psychosocial, and contextual
factors with condom use among a large community sample of at-risk adolescents recruited …