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HIV Risk-Related Attitudes, Interpersonal Influences, and Intentions Among At-Risk Urban, Early Adolescent Girls

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

October 8, 2008

The study authors sought to examine correlates of sexual experimentation and risk among 236 urban, early adolescent girls (age 12.38 ± 1.2 years) by comparing measures of HIV risk-related attitudes, interpersonal influences, and intentions.

Girls in high sexual experimentation and risk groups scored highest on deviant peer norms; endorsements of risky behaviors; and inability to refuse unprotected sex, offset negative partner influences, avoid intercourse, and assert sexual desires. Girls with older versus same-age or younger partners reported greater experimentation.

"Risk correlates should be considered in designing HIV prevention programs," the authors concluded.

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Adapted from:
Amer J of Health Behavior
09.10.2008; Vol. 32; No. 5: P. 497-507; Jennifer Di Noia, Ph.D.; Steven P. Schinke, Ph.D.


  
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