| Title |
HIV-related sexual decisions made by African-American adolescents living in different family structures: study from an ecodevelopmental perspective
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| Published in |
HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.), March 2018
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| DOI | 10.2147/hiv.s144594 |
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| Authors |
Ya-Huei Li, Paula Cuccaro, Hua Chen, Susan Abughosh, Paras D Mehta, Ekere J Essien |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to explore the association between the dynamics of family structure and sexual behaviors of African-American adolescents using the ecodevelopmental theory. This study stratified data from 1,617 African-American adolescents of the Add Health Wave I respondents with an identified family composition. It examined the associations between family structure, parenting function, and adolescents' sexual decision-making: age of first sexual intercourse, sexual initiation before age 16, and using a condom during the first and last sexual intercourse. Emotional connection between parents and children (feeling more love from the father: β=0.17,P=0.0312; feeling more love from the mother: β=0.3314,P=0.0420) and mothers' less permissive attitude toward adolescents' sexual experience in their teens (β=0.33,P=0.0466) are positively associated with late age of sexual initiation of adolescents living in two-parent households. School-level factors (β=0.07,P=0.0008) and the adolescents' characteristics (being older: 0.42,P=0.0002; heterosexuality: β=2.28,P=0.0091) are the factors most positively related to the age of sexual initiation for those living with a single parent. Immediate social determinants, other than family factors (such as land use of immediate area [rural]: β=9.84,P<0.0001; the condition of living unit: β=1.55,P=0.0011; and safety of neighborhood: β=4.46,P=0.004), are related to late age of sexual initiation among those living with other relatives/alone. A higher tendency of condom use consistency was present in adolescents living with two parents compared to those living in other family structures. Less parent/child connection and parent/family influence were found in African-American adolescents living with other relatives or alone, suggesting that living with two residential parents plays an essential role in their late sexual initiation and could account for an important element to combat high HIV incidence of African-American adolescents. |
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