Effect of Forced Sexual Intercourse on Associations between Early Sexual Debut and Other Health Risk Behaviors among US High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Lowry, Richard; Robin, Leah; Kann, Laura
Titel	Effect of Forced Sexual Intercourse on Associations between Early Sexual Debut and Other Health Risk Behaviors among US High School Students
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 87 (2017) 6, S.435-447 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/josh.12512
Schlagwörter	Sexuality; High School Students; Late Adolescents; Health Behavior; Risk; Sex Education; Rape; Violence; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Substance Abuse; Child Health + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexualität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Halbstarker; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Risiko; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Gewalt; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum
Abstract	Background: Previous research on associations between early sexual debut and other health risk behaviors has not examined the effect of forced sexual intercourse on those associations. Methods: We analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of 19,240 high school students in the United States, age =16 years, to describe the effect of forced sexual intercourse on associations between early sexual debut and other health risk behaviors using adjusted prevalence ratios (APR). Results: Early sexual debut and forced sexual intercourse were simultaneously and independently associated with sexual risk-taking, violence-related behaviors, and substance use. For example, even after controlling for forced sexual intercourse and race/ethnicity, students who experienced their first sexual intercourse before age 13 years were more likely than students who initiated sexual intercourse at age =16 years to have had =4 sexual partners during their lifetime (girls, APR = 4.55; boys, APR = 5.82) and to have not used a condom at last sexual intercourse (girls, APR = 1.74; boys, APR = 1.47). Conclusions: Associations between early sexual debut and other health risk behaviors occur independently of forced sexual intercourse. School-based sexual health education programs might appropriately include strategies that encourage delay of initiation of sexual intercourse, and coordinate with violence and substance use prevention programs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01