Patient teenagers? a comparison of the sexual behavior of virginity pledgers and matched nonpledgers

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rosenbaum, Janet Elise ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adolescent; Christianity; Contraception; Matched pair analysis; Nonparametric statistics; Religion and sex; Sexual abstinence; Sexual behavior; Sexual partners

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANUS INTERCOURSE; ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PREMARITAL SEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SAFE SEX; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRGINITY PLEGDE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 59449090804     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0407     Document Type: Article

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