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Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 2002
To examine associations between health risk behaviors and sexual experience with opposite-, same-, or both-sex partners in representative samples of high school students. Design: We used 1995 and 1997 data from the Vermont and Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveys. Logistic regression and multiple regression analyses were used to compare health risk behaviors among students who reported sex with opposite-sex partners only (opposite-sex students), with same-sex partners only (samesex students), and with both male and female sexual partners (both-sex students). Setting: Public high schools in Vermont and Massachusetts. Participants: Representative, population-based samples of high school students. The combined samples had 14623 Vermont students and 8141 Massachusetts students. Main Outcome Measure: Violence, harassment, suicidal behavior, alcohol and other drug use, and unhealthy weight control practices. Results: In both states, both-sex students were significantly more likely to report health risk behaviors than were opposite-sex students. For example, both-sex students had odds 3 to 6 times greater than opposite-sex students of being threatened or injured with a weapon at school, making a suicide attempt requiring medical attention, using cocaine, or vomiting or using laxatives to control their weight. In both states, same-sex students were as likely as oppositesex students to report most health risk behaviors. Conclusion: Relative to opposite-and same-sex students, both-sex students may be at elevated risk of injury, disease, and death by experiencing serious harassment and engaging in violence, suicidal behavior, alcohol and other drug use, and unhealthy weight control practices.
Heterosexual Risk Behaviors Among Urban Young Adolescents
Journal of Early Adolescence, 2006
Urban 6th graders (n = 294) participate in a survey assessing early heterosexual risk behaviors as part of the Reach for Health Middle Childhood Study. About half the boys (47%) and 20% of girls report having a girlfriend or boyfriend; 42% of boys and 10% of girls report kissing and hugging for a long time. Stepwise regressions model the relationships between heterosexual behaviors and gender, background characteristics, and parenting practices and peer influences. In the final model, being male, parental approval of having a girlfriend or a boyfriend, lower parental oversight of activities, having older or mixed-aged peers, and expressing peer norms supporting sexual behaviors are significant risk factors of heterosexual behaviors. Findings indicate the importance of parenting practices and peer influences on early sexual behaviors and inform strategies for helping urban young adolescents delay sexual initiation.
International Journal of Sexual Health, 2019
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The Journal of school health, 2016
Differences in sexual health-related outcomes by sexual behavior and identity remain underinvestigated among bisexual female adolescents. Data from girls (N = 875) who participated in the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey were analyzed. Weighted logistic regression models were fit to examine sexual and psychosocial health by lifetime sexual behavior (behaviorally bisexual vs behaviorally heterosexual) and sexual identity (bisexual vs heterosexual) adjusting for grade and race/ethnicity. Overall, 10.5% of girls reported lifetime bisexual behavior and 8.1% reported a bisexual identity. Behavior and identity were discordant for bisexual young women as 53.2% of behaviorally bisexual students had a bisexual identity and 46.8% had a heterosexual identity. Bisexual identity and behavior were associated with unprotected intercourse at last sexual encounter, early sexual debut, 4 or more lifetime partners, history of forced/unwanted sex, sexually transmitted infection tes...
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2004
To present the first national prevalence estimates of psychological and physical intimate partner violence between adolescents in same-sex relationships. Methods: Analyses focus on 117 adolescents aged 12-21 years (50% female) from Wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health who reported exclusively same-sex romantic or sexual relationships in the 18 months before interview. Items from the Conflict Tactics Scale were used to measure partner violence victimization. Data analysis included computation of prevalence estimates and a logistic regression analysis to assess associations between sociodemographic characteristics and violence victimization. Results: Almost one-quarter of adolescents with samesex romantic or sexual partners reported some type of partner violence victimization; about 1 in 10 reported physical victimization. Significant sex differences were found (OR ؍ .29, CI ؍ 0.08, 1.00), with males being less likely than females to report "any violence." Of six other sociodemographic characteristics examined, importance of religion (OR ؍ .27, CI ؍ 0.07-1.07) and school size (OR ؍ .32, CI ؍ 0.09-1.11) were associated with victimization at the p < .10 level. Adolescents who reported that religion was important to them and adolescents who attended larger schools were at lower risk of "any violence." Conclusions: As with opposite-sex relationships, psychological and minor physical violence victimization is common among adolescents involved in same-sex intimate relationships. Males reporting exclusively same-sex relationships were less likely than females to report experiencing the violence behaviors examined.