… This study found that African American teens with depressive symptoms were more likely …
among African American youth, depressive symptoms can lead to future adolescent HIV risk. In …

… African-American adolescents. We hypothesized that baseline depressive symptoms would
predict sexual risk … more vaginal sex partners, less frequent condom use during vaginal sex, …

… more variance (16.5%) in predicting sexual risk behavior than the control variables alone (…
a significant main effect for depressive symptomology predicting sexual risk behavior and that …

… to examine whether depressive symptoms are predictive of subsequent sexual risk behavior
in … In this study, depressive symptoms predicted sexual risk behavior in a national sample of …

… study examined depressive symptoms as a predictor of risky sexual behavior, … depressive
symptoms and sexual risk behavior among adolescents, and very few have focused on African …

… sexual risk-taking, combined with increased HIV/STI vulnerability among African American
female adolescents, … tool that serves as an indicator of depressive symptomatology; it is not a …

… Few other studies have examined associations between depressive symptoms and locus
of … in sexually active African-American female adolescents at baseline was predictive of …

… Furthermore, depression appears to be a stronger predictor of sexual risk … sexual sensation
seeking and depressive symptoms would be positively associated with drug use prior to sex, …

… for known predictors of sexual risk and baseline … between depressive symptoms and sexual
risk were found in this study. Among participants who reported having been sexually active …

… adolescents and young adults. The aims of the current study are (1) to examine the relationship
between mental health conditions (ie depressive symptoms… reliable predictors of HIV risk …