Juvenile Sexual Behaviors

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Mar 5, 2013

Cost of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Intervention to Promote Parent-Adolescent Sexual Health Communication

To examine the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed to help parents address sexual health with their adolescent children.
Commentary

Feb 18, 2013

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

A new field called implementation science addresses the issue of how to best support providers to take up new, research-proven treatments and implement them well. A RAND study will test how well Boys & Girls Clubs carry out a program proven to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, with and without an intervention called Getting To Outcomes.
Research

Feb 1, 2013

Translational Research Applications for the Study of Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

Although the initiation of sexual behaviors in adolescence is normative, adverse sexual health outcomes disproportionately affect adolescents relative to adults.
Research

Jan 1, 2013

To Use or Not to Use: A Stage-Based Approach to Understanding Condom Use Among Homeless Youth

This study used a stage-based approach to understand condom use behavior in a representative sample of 309 sexually active homeless youth recruited from shelters, drop-in centers, and street sites in Los Angeles County.
Research

Dec 1, 2012

A Decision Science-Informed Approach to Sexual Risk and Nonconsent

Young women valued communicating their intent not to have sex as an end in itself, but compared with other young women, those who had been raped feel more strongly about protecting their partner's feelings and maintaining a sexual relationship.
Research

Aug 1, 2012

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Fifth-Graders in Three Cities

Interventions that address potentially detrimental consequences of low socioeconomic status and adverse school environments may help reduce racial and ethnic differences in child health.
Research

Aug 1, 2012

If You Provide the Test, They Will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles

Drop-in centers can play an important role in facilitating testing among homeless youth, including among injection drug users, but more outreach is needed to encourage testing in other at-risk subgroups.
Research

Mar 19, 2012

A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey

The authors developed this matrix of measures to summarize the state of measurement in the arena of new media use and its potential relationship with adolescent sexual risk behavior and sexual health and set the stage for further research efforts.
Expert Insights

Jan 24, 2012

Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges for Studying the Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health

An expert panel was convened to develop a working knowledge base about the use of new media (the Internet, social networking sites, cell phones, online video games, MP3 players) among adolescents and the potential impact on their sexual health.
Research

Jan 1, 2012

Unprotected Sex of Homeless Youth: Results from a Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Social Network, and Relationship Factors

Investigates the multiple levels of influence on unprotected sex among homeless youth, including social network, individual, and partner level influences.
Research

Aug 1, 2011

Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood

Interventions need to recognize the importance of social networks of homeless youth in emerging adulthood by enhancing supportive bonds and reducing substance use and risky sex.
Research Summary

Mar 23, 2011

A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

Summarizes research on Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed by RAND and University of California at Los Angeles researchers that improves communication between parents and their adolescents on sexual health.

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Cost of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Intervention to Promote Parent-Adolescent Sexual Health Communication

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

Translational Research Applications for the Study of Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

To Use or Not to Use: A Stage-Based Approach to Understanding Condom Use Among Homeless Youth

A Decision Science-Informed Approach to Sexual Risk and Nonconsent

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Fifth-Graders in Three Cities

If You Provide the Test, They Will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles

A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey

Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges for Studying the Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health

Unprotected Sex of Homeless Youth: Results from a Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Social Network, and Relationship Factors

Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood

A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

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Cost of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Intervention to Promote Parent-Adolescent Sexual Health Communication

'Implementation Science' May Help Providers Adopt New Treatments Despite Real-World Constraints

Translational Research Applications for the Study of Adolescent Sexual Decision Making

To Use or Not to Use: A Stage-Based Approach to Understanding Condom Use Among Homeless Youth

A Decision Science-Informed Approach to Sexual Risk and Nonconsent

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Fifth-Graders in Three Cities

If You Provide the Test, They Will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles

A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey

Research Gaps and Measurement Challenges for Studying the Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health

Unprotected Sex of Homeless Youth: Results from a Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Social Network, and Relationship Factors

Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood

A Worksite Parenting Program That Works

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