scholarly journals Being drunk and high during sex is not associated with condom use behaviours: a study of high-risk young Black males

Sexual Health ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
Robin R. Milhausen ◽  
Stephanie Sanders ◽  
Cynthia A. Graham ◽  
William L. Yarber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Black Males ◽  
The United States ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Vaginal Sex ◽  
Audio Computer ◽  
Young Black Males

Objective To assess the relationship between the frequency of being drunk and high during sex, and condom use errors and problems (CUEP) among a sample of high-risk young Black males recruited from the United States. Methods: Data were collected in clinics treating sexually transmissible infections in three cities in the southern United States. Males 15–23 years of age (n = 697) who identified as African-American and reported recent (past 2 months) condom use were eligible. Measures of alcohol and drug use, as well as condom use behaviours were assessed by audio-computer assisted self-interview. Eighteen CUEP were included in this assessment. Results: Sixteen bivariate correlations were obtained. The magnitude of the coefficients was small, ranging from 0.01 to 0.13. Only three were significant. These were positive associations between the frequency of being drunk and the frequency of unprotected vaginal sex, as well as the frequency of the 18-item measure of CUEP. A significant correlation was also found between the frequency of being high during sex and the frequency of unprotected vaginal sex. Adjustments for age did not change the findings. Conclusions: Interventions designed to promote safer sex behaviours among young Black males attending sexually transmissible infection clinics are no more likely to benefit patients through the inclusion of messages and training attempting to dissuade the use of alcohol and drugs before or during sex.

scholarly journals Condoms are more effective when applied by males: a study of young black males in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 868-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
Robin R. Milhausen ◽  
Stephanie A. Sanders ◽  
Cynthia A. Graham ◽  
William L. Yarber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Males ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Black Males

scholarly journals Premature Deaths of Young Black Males in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon D. Jones-Eversley ◽  
Johnny Rice ◽  
A. Christson Adedoyin ◽  
Lori James-Townes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
Young Black Males

In the United States, generations of young Black males, ages 15 to 24 years, are prematurely dying from homicide and suicide. Between 1950 and 2010, the average death rate for young Black males due to homicide was 81.7 per 100,000 and suicide was 11.8 per 100,000. Ages 15 to 24 years are the intersecting developmental stages of adolescence and young adulthood when premature death should not be expected. The trauma and ceased procreation prospects stemming from Black males’ premature deaths represent a public health crisis in America. Heightened public health approaches are needed to bring attention to a young racial-gender group that is dying five to six decades prior to their life expectancy. The mass suicide-homicide killings, premature deaths, and death disparities among young Black males, ages 15 to 24, in the United States is not a paranoid propaganda. It is undeniably a disturbing public health crisis that requires an urgent national response to reverse and ultimately eradicate the premature death of young Black males.

Safer sex and condom use: findings from the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships

Sexual Health ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard O. de Visser ◽  
Paul B. Badcock ◽  
Chris Rissel ◽  
Juliet Richters ◽  
Anthony M. A. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Condom Use ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Barrier Methods ◽  
Multiple Sexual Partners ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Vaginal Sex ◽  
Bisexual Identity

Background It is important to have current and reliable estimates of the frequency and correlates of condom use among Australian adults. Methods: A representative sample of 20 094 men and women aged 16–69 years, from all states and territories, completed computer-assisted telephone interviews. The overall participation rate among eligible people was 66.2%. Results: Although most respondents had used a condom at some time in their lives, fewer than half of those who were sexually active in the year before being interviewed had used a condom in that year. Condom use in the last year was associated with youth, speaking a language other than English at home, bisexual identity, greater education, residence in major cities, lower income and having multiple sexual partners in the last year. One-quarter of respondents used a condom the last time they had vaginal intercourse and one-sixth of these were put on after genital contact. Condom use during most recent vaginal sex was associated with youth, lower income, having sex with a non-regular partner and not using another form of contraception. Condom use appears to have increased between 2001–02 and 2012–13. Conclusion: Consistent with other research, this study showed that condom use was strongly associated with partner type and use of other contraception. There may be a need to highlight among people with multiple sexual partners the fact that non-barrier methods of contraception do not offer protection against sexually transmissible infections. The finding that many condoms were applied after genital contact suggests a need to promote both use and correct use of condoms.

A Pragmatic Epidemiological Approach to Confronting the Genocidal Death Effect of Homicide and Suicide among Young Black Males in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Sharon D. Jones-Eversley ◽  
Johnny Rice ll ◽  
A. Christson Adedoyin ◽  
Lori James-Townes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Males ◽  
The United States ◽  
Epidemiological Approach ◽  
Young Black Males

Simulation : The National Security Council

1985 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Simon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
National Security ◽  
Security Council ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Security Council ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
College Course ◽  
Term Papers ◽  
Global Events

In the spring of 1981 I designed and taught what I considered, at the time, a "high risk" seminar for seventeen junior and senior political science majors. There were to be no textbooks, no lectures, no examinations and no term papers, those hallmarks of the traditional college course. Nevertheless, when the thirteen week course was over, the students were exhausted and claimed that they had never worked so hard in their college careers.The adventure that my students (and I) undertook was a semester long simulation of the United States National Security Council (NSC), dealing with actual global events as they happened. As Washington dealt with a problem, we dealt with the same problem. The simulation was initially offered during the deteriorating situation in Iran and instability in the Gulf region.

scholarly journals P372 Bacterial vaginosis and high-risk human papillomavirus coinfection among african american women in the united states

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purnima Madhivanan ◽  
Makella Coudray ◽  
Daniel Ruiz-Perez ◽  
Brett Colbert ◽  
Karl Krupp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Human Papillomavirus ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Bacterial Vaginosis ◽  
African American Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals PIN41 INFLUENZA VACCINATION RATES AMONG HIGH RISK GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. A121
Author(s):  
M. DiBonaventura ◽  
J.S. Wagner ◽  
A. Goren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccination Rates

Douching Practices Among Women at High Risk of HIV Infection in the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 406-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERYL A. KOBLIN ◽  
KENNETH MAYER ◽  
ANTHONY MWATHA ◽  
PAMELA BROWN-PETERSIDE ◽  
RENEE HOLT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
The United States
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