What you don't know can hurt you: Perceptions of sex-partner concurrency and partner-reported behavior

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-185

  Lenoir, Chavonne D ^a   Adler, Nancy E ^b   Borzekowski, Dina L G ^a   Tschann, Jeanne M ^b   Ellen, Jonathan M ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Concurrency; Interpartner agreement; Risk perception; Sexual partnerships; Sexual risk

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MALE; MONOGAMY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 32644462581     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.01.012     Document Type: Article

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