ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2009
Risk-taking behaviour is more frequent in teenage girls with multiple sexual partners.
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- Educational Differences in Sexual Health among Adolescents in Europe: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of public health · 2023Pooled it
- Research into the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of brief, free of charge and anonymous sex counselling to improve (mental) health in youth: design of a randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2009Trial
- School Connectedness and Risk for Sexual Intercourse and Nonconsensual Sex in Adolescence.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Need for Sexual, Reproductive, and Mental Health Promotion Among Diverse College Students in a COVID-19 Era.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Examining Sexual Behavior Among U.S. Transgender Adolescents.Journal of sex research · 2021Article
- Sexual Risk Behaviors during Adolescence: Associations with Childhood and Adolescent BMI.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
- How adverse childhood experiences relate to single and multiple health risk behaviours in German public university students: a cross-sectional analysis.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Prevalence of sexual coercion and its association with unwanted pregnancies among young pregnant females in Kampala, Uganda: a facility based cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2015Article
- Adolescents' religious discordance with mothers: is there a connection to sexual risk behavior during emerging adulthood?The journal of primary prevention · 2013Article
- Contraception matters: indicators of poor usage of contraception in sexually active women attending family planning clinics in Victoria, Australia.BMC public health · 2012Article
- Maternal models of risk: links between substance use and risky sexual behavior in African American female caregivers and daughters.Journal of adolescence · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate associations between sexual behaviour and risk-taking health behaviour among adolescent females in our changing sexual culture.
designA questionnaire study. Girls who had had multiple sexual partners (at least five in their lifetime or four during the last six months) were compared with those with fewer partners. Logistic regression was applied.
settingThe Adolescent Clinic, a primary healthcare unit in the city of Tampere, Finland. SUBJECTS: A sample of 247 female clients aged 15-18 years who had experienced sexual intercourse.
main outcome measuresContraceptive practices, substance use, and sexual attitudes.
resultsGirls with multiple sexual partners (n = 69) and the reference group (n = 178) did not differ from each other significantly by age, age at menarche, or educational status. In univariate analysis, age at sexual debut, contraceptive practices, and various substance uses were strongly associated with having multiple sexual partners. Ever-use of emergency contraception was marginally associated, while ever-use of conventional hormonal contraception or condoms was not. In multivariate analysis, low age at sexual debut (OR 8.75 for age 11-13), omitting contraception at the most recent intercourse (OR 3.48), ever-use of withdrawal as a contraceptive method (OR 2.34), and repeated use of drugs (OR 4.10) were associated with having multiple sexual partners.
conclusionDifferent types of risk-taking behaviour are still interlinked. In discussions with adolescents showing one type of risk behaviour health service providers should make an effort to identify other modes of risk-taking.
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