Adolescent Sexual Risk Taking: The Distribution of Youth Behaviors and Perceived Peer Attitudes Across Neighborhood Contexts

Warner, Tara D.

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.09.007

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“…It found that the odds of sexual debut was highest among youth from rural (poor Black and working class White) neighborhoods. It found no significant difference for other neighborhood types compared to upper middleclass White suburban neighborhoods (Warner, 2017).…”

Section: Neighborhood Typementioning

confidence: 73%

“…One found mixed results between immigrant concentration (a combined percentage of percentage Hispanic/Latino and percentage foreign born) and age of sexual initiation (Browning et al, 2004). Another study found higher odds of sexual initiation among youth living in poor Black urban and rural neighborhoods, but mixed or insignificant results for other races/ethnicities living in different geographic settings (Warner, 2017).…”

Section: Neighborhood Racial or Ethnic Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Neighborhoods matter. A systematic review of neighborhood characteristics and adolescent reproductive health outcomes

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This systematic review examines the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and adolescent pregnancy, contraceptive use, sexual initiation, and birthrate. Several studies found a significant association between higher poverty and increased adolescent birthrate, pregnancy, and earlier age at sexual initiation. Unsafe neighborhoods were associated with earlier sexual initiation and increased adolescent pregnancy. Mixed results were found for neighborhood racial or ethnic composition. Lower collective efficacy and social support were associated with increased rates of adolescent pregnancy and earlier age at sexual initiation. Improved definitions of neighborhoods, as well as research on interactions between structural factors and social processes during adolescence is needed.

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Section: Neighborhood Typementioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Neighborhood Racial or Ethnic Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neighborhoods matter. A systematic review of neighborhood characteristics and adolescent reproductive health outcomes

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“…Other widely used secondary data sources offer multiple measures of place that could be leveraged to avoid the pitfalls of county-bounded settlement type indicators. For instance, despite the availability of finely specified settlement type indicators in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (i.e., "Add Health"; see Gordon-Larsen 2009), most analyses rely only on what we refer to as BJSUSR when considering rural-urban differences in the health behaviors and experiences of adolescents and young adults (e.g., Cohn and Leake 2012;Warner 2018). We would expect that using a refined measure of settlement type when dealing with these other data sets would also demonstrate that the variations within nonmetropolitan counties can be just as substantial as those found with BJSUSR.…”

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Intimate Partner Violence in Small Towns, Dispersed Rural Areas, and Other Locations: Estimates Using a Reconception of Settlement Type

2019

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Current understanding of victimization of those in rural settlements compared to other types of settlements is limited by inadequate classifications of settlement types. The typical approach—one based on the incorrect use of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s classification of metropolitan areas—may mask important variations in the incidence of violent victimization, and in part explain mixed results related to this issue. To investigate this, we detail problems with following the typical approach, and then describe an alternative measure of settlement type. We next use this alternative settlement type measure to estimate the incidence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women from 1992–2015 National Crime Victimization Survey data. Over the period examined, the incidence of IPV was highest for women living in small towns (11.4 per 1,000). In contrast, women living in dispersed rural settlements (7.9 per 1,000) shared rates with those in suburbs (7.9 per 1,000) and exurbs (7.1 per 1,000) while reporting rates lower than those of women residing in the urban core (9.7 per 1,000). These results provide clarity to earlier research on the incidence of IPV across settlement types and they call into question the salience of geographic isolation as a determinant of IPV in nonmetropolitan locales.

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“…Sexual initiation and activity in adolescence is common. While statistics vary greatly by country, gender, age, ethnicity and socio-economic status [5][6][7][8][9][10][11], in most countries around the world at least a third of unmarried adolescents have had sexual intercourse by the time they are 19, with some form of partnered intimate activity common among 14-year-olds [7,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Sexual risk behaviours such as early sexual initiation, sex with multiple partners, and inconsistent contraceptive use are associated with unintended early pregnancy and increased susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV [9,18,20].…”

Section: Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging parents in digital sexual and reproductive health education: evidence from the JACK trial

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Background: Research evidence and international policy highlight the central role that parents play in promoting positive sexual behaviour and outcomes in their children, however they can be difficult to engage in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education programmes. Digital health promotion that uses online and mobile technologies (OMTs) to promote parent-child communication may offer an innovative solution to reach parents, however, few programmes have used OMTs to involve parents in SRH, and none have reported lessons learned in relation to optimising engagement. This study addresses this gap in the literature by reporting acceptability and feasibility of using OMTs to engage parents in SRH education. Findings will be relevant for those wishing to develop and implement digital SRH programmes with parents internationally. Methods: The Jack Trial is a UK-wide cluster randomised controlled trial recruiting over 8000 adolescents from 66 socially and religiously diverse post-primary schools. An embedded mixed-methods process evaluation explored user engagement with parent components of the If I Were Jack SRH education programme, which include online animated films and a parent-teen homework exercise. Results: A total of 109 adolescents, teachers, parents and SRH policy experts took part in semi-structured interviews and focus groups, 134 parents responded to an online survey, and 3179 adolescents completed a programme engagement and satisfaction questionnaire. Parents who accessed the materials were positive about them; 87% rated them as 'good or excellent' and 67% said they helped them have conversations with their child about SRH. Web analytics revealed that 27% of contacted parents accessed the digital materials, with 9% viewing the animated films. Only 38% of teachers implemented the homework exercise, mainly because they assumed that students would not complete it or it might result in backlash from parents. Conclusions: While digital parental materials show promise for engaging parents in SRH education, this study suggests that in order to optimise engagement, parental components that give parents the necessary skills to have conversations with their children about sex should be coupled with efforts to increase school and teacher confidence to communicate with parents on sensitive topics.

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Adolescent Sexual Risk Taking: The Distribution of Youth Behaviors and Perceived Peer Attitudes Across Neighborhood Contexts

Cited by 29 publications

References 33 publications

Neighborhoods matter. A systematic review of neighborhood characteristics and adolescent reproductive health outcomes

Neighborhoods matter. A systematic review of neighborhood characteristics and adolescent reproductive health outcomes

Intimate Partner Violence in Small Towns, Dispersed Rural Areas, and Other Locations: Estimates Using a Reconception of Settlement Type

Engaging parents in digital sexual and reproductive health education: evidence from the JACK trial

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