Parent-Adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescent Safer Sex Behavior: AMeta-Analysis

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 52-61

  Widman, Laura ^a   Choukas Bradley, Sophia ^b   Noar, Seth M ^c   Nesi, Jacqueline ^b   Garrett, Kyla ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONDOM USE; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; META ANALYSIS; PARENT ADOLESCENT SEXUAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNPROTECTED SEX; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CONDOM; FATHER; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; COMMUNICATION; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SAFE SEX; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84954146614     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.2731     Document Type: Article

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