scholarly journals Contextual Factors and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young, Black Men

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamal Jones ◽  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Richard Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Peer Norms ◽  
Effect Modifier ◽  
Number Of Sexual Partners

Young Black men (YBM), aged 13 to 24 years, face a disproportionate burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STI acquisition among YBM is due to incorrect and inconsistent condom use and is exacerbated by multiple sexual partners. Sexual and reproductive health is influenced by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social determinants that contribute to increased risk for STI acquisition. However, there are key social determinants of sexual health that play a major role in adolescent sexual risk–taking behaviors: gender norms, environment, peers, and families as well as a desire to impregnate a woman. Associations between contextual factors (risky environmental context, desire to impregnate a woman, and peer norms supportive of unsafe sex) and sexual risk behaviors were examined among a sample of YBM attending adolescent health clinics. This study used baseline data from a randomized controlled trial ( N = 702). Parental monitoring was also examined as an effect modifier of those associations. Sexual risk behaviors were the frequency of condomless vaginal sex, number of sexual partners within the previous 2 months, and lifetime number of sexual partners. Mean age was 19.7. In the adjusted model, peer norms was the only significant predictor for all sexual risk outcomes ( p < .05). Parental monitoring was an effect modifier for the perceived peer norms and lifetime sexual partners association ( p = .053) where the effect of peer norms on lifetime sexual partners was lower for participants with higher levels of perceived parental monitoring.

Associations Between Internalized Homophobia and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 656-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Leandro Mena ◽  
Angelica Geter
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Internalized Homophobia ◽  
Sex With Men

scholarly journals Factors Predicting Sexual Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in North-Eastern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athiwat Butdabut ◽  
Pissamai Homchampa
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Peer Norms ◽  
Reproductive Behaviors ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Unsafe Sexual Behaviors

The number of young people who have had sex at an early age increases in proportion, it concerns unsafe sexual behaviors, teenage pregnancy, HIV aids and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This study examines the health behaviors and factors predicting sexual risk behaviors pertaining to teenage pregnancy among adolescents in Thailand. Adolescents consulted the reproductive health center about problems with the same gender. The factors of adolescent reproductive behaviors were significantly associated with age, education level, and the perception of peer norms. Receiving social support from media information also significantly correlated with those behaviors. The results recommend that to prevent premature pregnancy, adolescents should protect themselves. Parents should take the issue of social media use by their teenagers very seriously.

scholarly journals Elevated HIV Prevalence Despite Lower Rates of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Men in the District of Columbia Who Have Sex with Men

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 615-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manya Magnus ◽  
Irene Kuo ◽  
Gregory Phillips ◽  
Katharine Shelley ◽  
Anthony Rawls ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Sex With Men

Sexual risk behaviors and influencing factors among Muslim adolescents on southern border of Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fusiyah Hayee ◽  
Warunee Fongkaew ◽  
Chawapornpan Chanprasit ◽  
Thanee Kaewthummanukul ◽  
Joachim G. Voss
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Contraceptive Pills ◽  
Southern Border

AbstractObjectivesTo describe individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors and sexual risk behaviors among Thai Muslim adolescents.MethodsWe recruited adolescents from four schools and one vocational college on the Southern border of Thailand during October 2018 to January 2019. We used password-protected online questionnaires for each respondent to protect their privacy.ResultsWe recruited N = 700 participants of which 9% were sexually experienced. Of those participants, many had never used a condom (41.3%) or considered taking contraceptive pills (71.4%). Moreover, 54% of them have had sexual intercourse more than once. Some had been infected with an STI (17.5%), and (14.3%) became pregnant more than once. Adolescents reported individual factors such as high religiosity (58.7%), and (47.6%) practiced Islam daily with no differences between boys and girls. Girls had significantly higher refusal of sex self-efficiency than boys (96 vs. 119.5, p < 0.05). In the interpersonal factors, boys had more uninvolved parenting style, lower parental monitoring, higher parental approval of sex, and higher perceived peer norm than girls. The environmental factors besides cultural norms impacted girls and boys equally.ConclusionsWe showed low rates of sexual activity, but in those adolescents who were sexually active we showed high rates of lack of knowledge and higher rates of sexual risk behaviors. Individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors all influenced sexual risk behaviors. We recommend comprehensive sexuality education that includes Islamic context for adolescents and their parents embedded in policy, religious, and community cultural practices.

scholarly journals Extended-Family Talk about Sex and Teen Sexual Behavior

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Grossman ◽  
Alicia D. Lynch ◽  
Amanda M. Richer ◽  
Lisette M. DeSouza
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Risky Sexual Behavior ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Sexuality Communication

Research shows that family sexuality communication is protective for teens’ risky sexual behavior, but most studies on this topic focus exclusively on the parent–teen dyad. The few studies that assessed extended family sexuality communication use a single item to measure this communication and showed mixed results as to whether it is associated with sexual risk behaviors for teens. The current study included cross-sectional survey data from 952 teens in the 11th and 12th grades. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess associations between teens’ sexual risk behaviors and communication with extended family about protection methods, risks of sex and relational approaches to sex. Results showed that, for sexually active teens, talk about protection methods was associated with fewer sexual partners and talk about risks of sex was associated with more sexual partners, even after accounting for talk with parents about sex and controlling for teen gender, racial/ethnic background and mothers’ education. Results suggest that extended family talk with teens about sex might protect them from risky sexual behavior, over and above the effects of teen–parent communication. However, the direction of the effect depends on the content of the conversations. Talk about protection might support teens’ sexual health, while talk about risks of sex with teens who have already had sex, might not be effective. These findings suggest the need to explore whether and how extended family could be included in health prevention and intervention programs, which currently focus on parents.

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