ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2008
Recently arrested adolescents are at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases.
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- Efficacy of an HIV/STI sexual risk-reduction intervention for African American adolescent girls in juvenile detention centers: a randomized controlled trial.Women & health · 2014Trial
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- Unpacking the Layers: Dismantling Inequities in Substance Use Services and Outcomes for Racially Minoritized Adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2022Review
- Bringing juvenile justice and public health systems together to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of justice-involved youth.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2022Article
- A Technology-Based Training Tool for a Health Promotion and Sex Education Program for Justice-Involved Youth: Development and Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- What Racism Has to Do with It: Understanding and Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Youth of Color.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Brief Report: HIV Testing and Risk Among Justice-Involved Youth.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Modelling cost-effectiveness of syphilis detection strategies in prisoners: exploratory exercise in a Chilean male prison.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2021Article
- Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees.Health & justice · 2020Article
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- Juvenile justice staff endorsement of HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment linkage.Health & justice · 2019Article
- CHOICES-TEEN: Reducing Substance-Exposed Pregnancy and HIV among Juvenile Justice Adolescent Females.Research on social work practice · 2019Article
- The Behavioral Health Needs of First-Time Offending Justice-Involved Youth: Substance Use, Sexual Risk and Mental Health.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2019Article
- Association of Mental Health Symptoms and Peer Behaviors with Risk for Substance Use and Condomless Sex among Youth in Juvenile Drug Court.Journal of child & adolescent substance abuse · 2018Article
- Challenges to conducting adolescent HIV prevention services research with court-involved youth.Children and youth services review · 2017Article
- Epidemiology of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Offenders Following Arrest or Incarceration.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association between Arrest and Unprotected Anal Sex among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: The P18 Cohort Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdolescent offenders may be at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). With previous research and interventions focused on incarcerated adolescents, data are needed on STD prevalence and risk factors among newly arrested youth released to the community, a far larger subgroup.
methodsParticipants were recruited from all arrested youth processed at the Hillsborough County, Florida Juvenile Assessment Center during the last half of 2006 (506 males, 442 females). Participants voluntarily providing urine samples for drug testing as part of standard protocol were also consented to having their specimens split and tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea, using an FDA-approved nucleic acid amplification test.
resultsSTD prevalence was similar to those previously reported among incarcerated adolescents: 11.5% tested positive for chlamydia, 4.2% for gonorrhea, and 13.2% for either or both infections. Prevalence was significantly higher among females: 19.2% of females had either or both infections compared with 10.5% of males. Prevalence was higher for 17 to 18 year olds (15.2% of males, 25.5% of females), blacks, detained youths, drug users, and those engaged in sexual risk behaviors. Previous STD testing experience was limited.
conclusionsThe study indicated that a voluntary STD screening protocol is feasible for arrested youth entering the juvenile justice system, and these offenders are at high risk for STDs. Because most arrested youths are released back to the community, routine testing and treatment of recently arrested youths, and expanded access to risk reduction and prevention programs, can yield substantial public health benefits.
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