Measuring adolescent sexual behaviors and related health outcomes.
Measuring adolescent sexual behaviors and related health outcomes.
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衡量青少年性行为和相关健康结果。
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
S. Aral
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作者:
L. Morris;C. Warren;S. Aral
PREGNANCY AND SEXUALY TRANSMITIrED DISEASES (STD), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, cause significant social and economic problems among adolescents in the United States. Adolescents who become parents risk lifelong social and economic disadvantages. Compared to persons who begin childbearing in their 20s, adolescent parents are less likely to complete their educations or to be employed and are more likely to have lower incomes, larger families, more marital disruptions, and greater need for welfare assistance (1-5). Compared with children of mothers in their 20s and 30s, children of adolescent mothers have a higher risk of poor intellectual and academic achievement together with social and behavioral problems (6). The total cost to society of STD prevention and treatment currently exceeds $3.5 billion annually (7). The cumulative costs of treating all people with HIV infection will increase from $10.3 billion in 1992 to $15.2 billion in 1995 (8). STD will make major demands on the nation's health and social service systems through the 1990s. Pregnancies and STD among adolescents largely are preventable through coordinated efforts among families, schools, health and education agencies, and community organizations. The development of effective school-based and community-based programs depends, in part, on gaining information about the nature and extent of sexual behaviors among adolescents (9, 10). In this paper we describe the development of questions related to sexual behaviors for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) questionnaire. The YRBSS panel participants (for list, see Appendix I, page 56) first identified major health outcomes associated with pregnancy and STD among adolescents. Guided by national health objectives for the year 2000 (1 1), we developed questions that would elicit information on those adolescent sexual behaviors most related to negative health outcomes. chairperson and Chiefofthe Behavioral Epidemiology and Demographic Research Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, of CDC's National CenterforChronic DiseasePrevention and HealthPromotion(NCCDPHP). Dr.Warren is a Sociologist, Surveillance andEvaluation Research Branch, Division of Adolescent and School Health, NCCDPHP. Dr. Arl is Assistant for Behavioral and Epidemiologic Intervention, Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Prevention, National Center for Prevention Services.
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12.7
作者:
Kandel,DB;Davies,M
通讯作者:
Davies,M