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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 505-512Publisher
PNG PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.36.4.7
Keywords
adolescents; cigarette smoking; sexual risk; sexually transmitted infection
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- NCIRD
- ALLCDC [552801] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- NCIRD
- ALLCDC [5R18IP000166-02] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- NIAID NIH HHS [P30-AI50409, T32AI074492] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [5R01 MH61210-05] Funding Source: Medline
- NCIRD CDC HHS [R18IP000166] Funding Source: Medline
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Objectives: To examine the relationship of smoking to sexual risk outcomes among African American adolescent females. Methods: We analyzed baseline data from an HIV intervention trial, including sexual risk (older sex partners, number of vaginal sex partners, sex while high on drugs/alcohol, STI diagnosis) and smoking status among 715 participants. Results: Smoking prevalence was 23.1%. Controlling for covariates, smoking predicted having older partners (P=.001), having sex while high on alcohol or drugs (P<.001), and STI diagnosis (P=.046), after including other sexual risk outcomes in the model. Conclusions: Smoking is an independent risk factor for sexual risk behaviors and STI diagnosis.
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