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ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2015

Sexual risk behaviors and steroid use among sexual minority adolescent boys.

Aaron J Blashill, Steven A Safren, Jonathan D Jampel

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Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aaron J BlashillDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: aaron.blashill@sdsu.edu.
Steven A SafrenDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: ssafren@mgh.harvard.edu.
Jonathan D JampelThe Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: jjampel@fenwayhealth.org.
Fenway Health · US

Funding

Body Image and Self-care in HIV-infected MSMK23MH096647 · NIMH · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BLASHILL, AARON J · 2012 to 2016
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NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH096647NIMH NIH HHS K23MH096647
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPrevious research has extensively examined the relationship between the use of alcohol and illicit substances with sexual risk behaviors among sexual minority (i.e., gay and bisexual) male youth; however, no known studies have assessed the association of steroid use to risk behaviors among this population.

methodsParticipants were 556 sexually active sexual minority adolescent boys (M age=16.2, SD=1.3), taken from a pooled dataset of the 14 jurisdictions from the 2005 and 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys that assessed sexual orientation. The association between lifetime use of steroids and sexual risk behaviors were examined.

resultsControlling for number of sexual partners, depression, victimization, and race, boys who reported increased steroid use were at increased odds of engaging in condomless sex, OR=1.55, p=.003, and use of alcohol/drugs during sex, OR=1.48, p=.002.

conclusionsSteroid use among sexual minority adolescent boys is prevalent and associated with HIV/STI sexual transmission risk behaviors.

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AdolescentAdolescent BehaviorBisexualityHomosexuality, MaleHumansMalePrevalenceRisk FactorsSelf MedicationSteroidsUnited StatesUnsafe SexSteroidsAdolescent boysSexual orientationSexual riskSteroidsSubstance use

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PMID26144592
PMCPMC4646078
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