The Impact of Community-Based Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening Results on Sexual Risk Behaviors of African American Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-19

  Sznitman, Sharon R ^a   Carey, Michael P ^b   Vanable, Peter A ^b   DiClemente, Ralph J ^c   Brown, Larry K ^d   Valois, Robert F ^e   Hennessy, Michael ^a   Farber, Naomi ^e   Rizzo, Christie ^d   Caliendo, Angela ^f   Salazar, Laura F ^c   Stanton, Bonita F ^g   Romer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based STI screening; STI HIV prevention, African American adolescents

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL SEXUAL CONTACT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNSAFE SEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HIV INFECTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 77953286610     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.12.024     Document Type: Article

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