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Alcohol Use Problems and Sexual Risk Among Young Adult African American Mothers
Studies have documented high levels of alcohol use and sexual risk among young mothers. We examined parenting satisfaction and self-efficacy in relation to alcohol use problems and sexual risk among 346 young ...
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Comparison of Substance Use Typologies as Predictors of Sexual Risk Outcomes in African American Adolescent Females
African American female adolescents have a disproportionate risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and other adverse sexual health outcomes. Both alcohol and marijuana use have been shown to predict se...
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School-Located Vaccination Clinics for Adolescents: Correlates of Acceptance Among Parents
Four vaccines are recommended by The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices for adolescents: tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4), human papil...
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Combination HIV Prevention Interventions: The Potential of Integrated Behavioral and Biomedical Approaches
Combination HIV prevention interventions that integrate efficacious behavioral and biomedical strategies offer the potential to reduce new HIV infections. We overview the efficacy data for three biomedical HIV...
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Added benefits: reduced depressive symptom levels among African-American female adolescents participating in an HIV prevention intervention
Adolescents experience elevated depressive symptoms which health promotion interventions may reduce. This study investigated whether HIV prevention trial participation decreased depressive symptoms among Afric...
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Interaction Between 5-HTTLPR Polymorphism and Abuse History on Adolescent African-American Females’ Condom Use Behavior Following Participation in an HIV Prevention Intervention
Not everyone exposed to an efficacious human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention will reduce sexual risk behaviors, yet little is known about factors associated with “failure to change” high-risk sexual ...
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Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Use among HIV-Infected Individuals: A Review and Critique of the Literature
Alcohol use disorders are common among HIV-infected individuals and are associated with adverse physiological complications and increased engagement in other health risk behaviors. This paper provides a review...
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Predicting Discordance Between Self-reports of Sexual Behavior and Incident Sexually Transmitted Infections with African American Female Adolescents: Results from a 4-city Study
This study examined correlates of the discordance between sexual behavior self-reports and Incident Sexually Transmitted Infections. African American adolescent females (N = 964) from four U.S. cities were recrui...
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Emotional Victimization and Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent African American Women
Previous research has demonstrated that a history of gender-based victimization is associated with higher rates of sexual risk-taking behaviors among adolescents. Victimization can occur in various forms. To d...
