Does Context and Adversity Shape Sexual Behavior in Youth? Findings from Two Representative Samples of Puerto Rican Youth.
Sexual risk behaviors often co-occur. Understanding the heterogeneity in patterns of sexual behavior among youth and how context of majority and minoritized status may be related to these behaviors can inform targeted STIs/HIV interventions. Data are from the Boricua Youth Study, a longitudinal stud...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 217 - 232 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=161416545&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 161416545 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00040002 ASX jtl: Archives of Sexual Behavior issn: 00040002 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2023 vid: 52 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 161416545 10.1007/s10508-022-02328-1 ppf: 217 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 739KB tig: atl: Does Context and Adversity Shape Sexual Behavior in Youth? Findings from Two Representative Samples of Puerto Rican Youth. aug: au: Ramos-Olazagasti, Maria A. Elkington, Katherine S. Wainberg, Milton L. Feng, Tianshu Corbeil, Thomas Canino, Glorisa J. Bird, Hector R. Scorza, Pamela Wildsmith, Elizabeth Alegria, Margarita Duarte, Cristiane S. affil: Reproductive Health and Family Formation, Child Trends, 7315 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 1200W, 20814, Bethesda, MD, USA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, USA Disparities Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA su: Puerto Rico Youths' sexual behavior Hispanic American youth Social context Young adults sug: subj: Youths' sexual behavior Hispanic American youth Social context Young adults Puerto Rico keyword: Adverse childhood experiences Latino youth Maltreatment Sexual risk behaviors Adverse childhood experiences Latino youth Maltreatment Sexual risk behaviors ab: Sexual risk behaviors often co-occur. Understanding the heterogeneity in patterns of sexual behavior among youth and how context of majority and minoritized status may be related to these behaviors can inform targeted STIs/HIV interventions. Data are from the Boricua Youth Study, a longitudinal study of two probability samples of Puerto Rican youth recruited in the South Bronx (SBx) and the metropolitan area in Puerto Rico (PR). We identified patterns of sexual behaviors among young adults (ages 15–24) with sexual experience (N = 1,203) using latent class analysis. Analyses examined context differences and the prospective relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) (childhood maltreatment/violence, family/parental dysfunction) and patterns of sexual behaviors (age at first sex, number of sex partners, sex with a high-risk partner, condom use, sex while intoxicated, oral sex, anal sex). We identified five classes of sexual behaviors: (1) currently inactive (16.51%); (2) single partner, low activity (13.49%); (3) single partner, inconsistent condom use (32.19%); (4) single partner, sex without a condom (27.65%); and (5) multirisk (10.16%). Young adults from the SBx (minoritized context), those who identified as male, and those with higher child maltreatment/violence ACEs were more likely to be in the multi-risk class relative to the single partner, inconsistent condom use class. Those from the SBx were also more likely to be in the single partner, sex without condom class, relative to the single partner, inconsistent condom use class. Differences in young adults' patterns of sexual behaviors between the two contexts, one representing the minoritized context (SBx) contrasted to the majority context (PR), were not explained by ACEs. Findings highlight the heterogeneity in the patterns of sexual behaviors among Puerto Rican young adults as well as how such patterns vary based on sociocultural contexts. Exposure to child maltreatment/violence ACEs was related to the riskier patterns; however, they did not explain why riskier patterns of sexual behaviors were found in the SBx compared to PR. Results underscore the need for tailored interventions and more in-depth examination of differences across contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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