Alcohol Use as a Marker for Risky Sexual Behaviors and Biologically Confirmed Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Young Adult African-American Women

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 130-135

  Seth, Puja ^a,b   Wingood, Gina M ^a,b   DiClemente, Ralph J ^a,b   Robinson, LaShun S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY CENTER FOR AIDS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNSAFE SEX; VAGINA SMEAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951974765     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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