Monitoring knowledge among family, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual partnership characteristics of African American adolescent females

Sex Transm Dis. 2014 Oct;41(10):601-4. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000188.

Abstract

Among 284 African American girls aged 14 to 17 years, frequent family monitoring knowledge was associated with a reduced likelihood of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and having a casual sex partner but was not associated with other partnership characteristics. Family monitoring may offer an additional STI prevention opportunity for this vulnerable population.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior* / ethnology
  • Adolescent Behavior* / psychology
  • Black or African American* / statistics & numerical data
  • Family
  • Female
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Humans
  • Parenting*
  • Population Surveillance
  • Risk Factors
  • Sexual Behavior / ethnology
  • Sexual Behavior / statistics & numerical data
  • Sexual Partners*
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / epidemiology
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / prevention & control*
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / psychology
  • Social Support
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Unsafe Sex* / ethnology
  • Unsafe Sex* / statistics & numerical data
  • Vulnerable Populations