Monitoring Knowledge Among Family, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Sexual Partnership Characteristics of African American Adolescent Females

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Ralph Diclemente, Emory University; Riley Steiner, Emory University; Andrea Swartzendruber, Emory University; Eve Rose, Emory University; Ralph J DiClemente, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2014-10-01
• Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2014 American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000188
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 10
• Start Page: 601
• End Page: 604
• Grant/Funding Information: This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (5R01 MH070537) to the fourth author. Additional support was provided by the Emory Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI050409), the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (UL1TR000454), and the Center for Contextual Genetics & Prevention (P03 DA027827). Andrea Swartzendruber was supported by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant No. F32AA022058.
• Keywords: Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Science & Technology; Infectious Diseases; RISK; BEHAVIORS

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.