Infrequent Parental Monitoring Predicts Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Low-Income African American Female Adolescents
Author(s) -
Richard A. Crosby,
Ralph J. DiClemente,
Gina M. Wingood,
Delia L. Lang,
Kathy Harrington
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3628
pISSN - 1072-4710
DOI - 10.1001/archpedi.157.2.169
Subject(s) - trichomoniasis , chlamydia trachomatis , trichomonas vaginalis , medicine , chlamydia , confidence interval , gonorrhea , demography , odds ratio , sexually transmitted disease , prospective cohort study , randomized controlled trial , gynecology , obstetrics , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , syphilis , sociology
To prospectively determine (using an 18-month follow-up period) the association between African American female adolescents' perceptions of parental monitoring and their acquisition of biologically confirmed infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis.
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