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Racial-Ethnic Differences in Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Substance Use

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This research investigates the impact adolescent substance use has on adult sexual risk behaviors within racial-ethnic groups. Previous research has found support for this relationship, but often relies on concurrent measures of substance use and sexual risk behavior meaning that the causal direction of this relationship may be unclear. The data for this study come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a nationally representative survey that followed respondents from adolescence in 1994 to adulthood in 2008. Results show that substance use correlates with sexual risk behavior, but the impact varies by race-ethnicity.

Source: Journal of black sexuality and relationships

DOI: 10.1353/bsr.2016.0020

Authors: Paula K. Miller, Clifford L. Broman

Institution: Michigan State University

Language: English

Topic: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development