"Your clothes aren't going to magically come off": An exploratory study of U.S. Latino adolescents' reasons for having or not having first-time vaginal intercourse

Universitas Psychologica

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1409-1418

  Useche, Bernardo ^a,b   Medina, Gilda ^c   Ross, Michael W ^c,d   Markham, Christine ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUCARAMANGA   (Colombia)

^b School of Health Sciences Center of Biomedical Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent health; Human sexuality; Reproductive health; Special populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930064396     PISSN: 16579267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11144/Javeriana.UPSY13-4.ycag     Document Type: Article

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