James Dennis Fortenberry
Professor of Adolescent Medicine
at Indiana University (IU)
📚 Donald Orr, M.D. Professor of Adolescent Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Dr. J. Dennis Fortenberry is a distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he served as Division Chief from 2015 to 2020. He also holds an adjunct appointment in epidemiology at the Fairbanks School of Public Health and is an integral member of the Center for Sexual Promotion at Indiana University. A respected figure in adolescent health and sexual health research, Dr. Fortenberry has made significant contributions to the field through both his clinical practice and academic pursuits.
Dr. Fortenberry's professional affiliations reflect his leadership and dedication to sexual health and adolescent medicine. He is actively involved in various prestigious organizations, including the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine, the International Academy for Sex Research, the American STD Association, and the Society for Scientific Study of Sex. Additionally, he has held notable leadership roles, serving as past president of both the International Academy for Sex Research and the American STD Association, as well as chairing the Board of Directors of the American Sexual Health Association.
His expertise has been acknowledged through numerous accolades, such as the American STD Association Achievement Award (2009), the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award (2014), and the Society for Scientific Study of Sex Lifetime Contributions Award (2017). In addition to these honors, Dr. Fortenberry has received the Trustee Teaching Award twice (2007 and 2015) for his dedication to education and mentorship.
Clinically, Dr. Fortenberry is the director of the Child and Adolescent Gender Health Program at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, where he focuses on providing comprehensive care to transgender and gender nonbinary youth. His research interests span adolescent health, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, HIV prevention and treatment for youth, and the unique health challenges faced by transmasculine youth.
Dr. Fortenberry's scholarly contributions are vast, with over 350 publications, including peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. His research has been continuously supported by federal funding since 1987, reflecting his ongoing commitment to advancing knowledge in his field. Notable publications include studies on sexual consent and pleasure among college students, pathways to parenthood for bisexual individuals, and investigations into the relationships between trust and sexual health.
Educationally, Dr. Fortenberry holds a Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma State University (1975), an MD from the University of Oklahoma (1979), and completed his residency at Bryn Mawr Hospital and the University of Oklahoma. He later earned an MS from the University of Oklahoma in 1989.
Dr. Fortenberry’s work addresses critical issues in adolescent and sexual health, particularly among marginalized and vulnerable populations. His dedication to improving health outcomes for young people and his extensive contributions to research make him a prominent and influential figure in his field.
Dr. J. Dennis Fortenberry is Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. He served as Division Chief from 2015 – 2020. He also holds an adjunct appointment in epidemiology in the Fairbanks School of Public Health and is a member of the Center for Sexual Promotion at Indiana University.
Dr. Fortenberry is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine, the International Academy for Sex Research, the American STD Association, and the Society for Scientific Study of Sex. He is past president of the International Academy for Sex Research, and past-president of the American STD Association, a fellow of the Society for Scientific Study of Sex, and past chair of the Board of Directors of the American Sexual Health association.
His contributions have been recognized by the American STD Association Achievement Award in 2009, the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014, and the Society for Scientific Study of Sex Lifetime Contributions Award in 2017. Clinically, Dr. Fortenberry directs the Child and Adolescent Gender Health Program at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health.
His research program has five major elements: adolescent health, sexuality and sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, HIV prevention and treatment for youth, and research on transmasculine youth. Dr. Fortenberry has received Federal research support continuously since 1987 and has published more than 350 commentaries, book chapters and peer-reviewed papers.
Skills & Expertise
Adolescent Health Management
Sexual Health Promotion
Research Interests
Public Health
Epidemiology
Sexual Health
Adolescent Health
Sexuality research
HIV/STD Prevention
HIV Prevention
Transgender Health
STI Management
Gender Health
Sexual Wellbeing
HIV
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Physical and mental health of transgender
gender nonbinary youth
Adolescent sexuality
sexual health
sexual wellbeing
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Professor of Adolescent Medicine
Indiana University (IU)
·
March 2015 -
Present
- Donald Orr, M.D. Professor of Adolescent Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Medicine Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health
🎓 Education
University of Oklahoma (OU)
MS in
Pediatrics
· 1989
🏆 Awards & Achievements (1)
🏆 Trustee Teaching Award
Awarded by: University of Oklahoma || Year:
2015
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📚 Publications (304)
Journal: International Journal of Sexual Health
• September-2021
This paper develops a trauma-informed sex-positive framework as a public health, clinical, and research approach to sexual experience over the life course. The framework centers trauma-informed sex po...
Sexual pleasure
Sexual wellbeing
Trauma-informed care
Sexual rights
Sexual justice
Sexual trauma
Consent
Sexual autonomy
Pleasure-centered approaches
Public health
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Women's Health
• September-2021
Background: Dysmenorrhea affects most reproductive-aged women. Common dysmenorrhea treatments vary in their effectiveness across individuals. Little is known about factors associated with perceived tr...
Dysmenorrhea
Pain
Pelvic pain
Chronic pain
Treatment outcome
Pharmacological treatment ineffectiveness
Menstrual pain
Nsaids ineffectiveness
Acetaminophen and dysmenorrhea
Oral contraceptive pills (ocps)
+19 more
Journal: Nursing Research
• September-2021
Background
Dysmenorrhea is highly prevalent; it places women at risk for other chronic pain conditions. There is a high degree of individual variability in menstrual pain severity, the number of pai...
Menstrual pain
Menstrual cycle
Chronic pain conditions
Reproductive health
Microbiome dysbiosis
Vaginal microbiota
Inflammation
Menstrual health
Precision medicine
Gynecological disorders
+17 more
Journal: Patient Education and Counseling
• September-2016
Objective
To examine adolescent and young adults’ experiences of sexuality communication with physicians, and gain advice for improving interactions.
Methods
Semi-structured interviews were conduct...
Adolescent health
Sexual communication
Physician-patient communication
Sexual minority
Sexual majority
Confidentiality
Privacy
Inclusivity
Gender identity
Lgbtq+ healthcare
+17 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• September-2016
Background
Adolescent women are disproportionately impacted by the adverse outcomes associated with sexual activity, including sexually transmitted infections (STI). Condoms as a means of prevention...
Sexual abstinence
Adolescent
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexual behavior
Affect
Survival analysis
Sexual desire
Sexual partner
Condom failure
Sexual risk behavior
+45 more
Journal: Sexual Health
• September-2015
Background: Physician–adolescent sexuality discussions are a recommended element in health maintenance visits, but such discussions – if they occur at all – probably vary by adolescents’ characteristi...
Sexuality
Patient–provider communication
Sexual behaviour
Patient-provider communication
Sexual behavior
Adolescent health
Health maintenance visits
Physician-adolescent discussions
Sexual health education
Risk assessment
+17 more
Journal: Contraception
• September-2013
Background
Intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-IM) is now available in subcutaneous (SC) formulation, potentially allowing for home-based self-administration. We examined adolescent...
Self-injection
Adolescent contraception
Dmpa-sc
Birth control
Reproductive health
Injectable contraceptives
Home-based contraception
Contraceptive autonomy
Teen pregnancy prevention
Long-acting reversible contraception (larc)
+18 more
Journal: Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services
• September-2013
The fragmentation of HIV-related diagnostic and treatment services, especially for youth, is a significant barrier for engaging in care. The authors identified key elements that affected care linkage...
Adolescents hiv
Linkage to care
Health departments
Adolescent medicine clinics
Care coordination
Hiv diagnosis
Treatment services
Interagency relationships
Data-sharing protocols
Service duplication
+10 more
Journal: Culture, Health & Sexuality
• September-2012
Limited research exists regarding community involvement and social support among behaviourally bisexual men. Previous studies suggest that bisexual men experience high levels of social stigma in both...
Bisexual
Men
Community
Social support
Stigma
Bisexual identity
Bisexual visibility
Lgbtq+ inclusion
Sexual minority stress
Bisexual erasure
+19 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• September-2007
Purpose
Measuring pregnancy intentions has been difficult. This study examines questions regarding pregnancy intentions and their association with adolescents’ sexual and contraceptive behaviors long...
Adolescent behavior
Pregnancy in adolescence
Contraception
Pregnancy intentions
Adolescent women
Contraceptive behaviors
Unintended pregnancy
Sexual behavior
Coital event level analysis
Contraceptive use
+9 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• September-2006
Purpose
Consistent condom use is critical to efforts to prevent sexually transmitted infections among adolescents, but condom use may decline as relationships and contraceptive needs change. The purp...
Hormonal contraception
Condom use
Relationship quality
Adolescent women
Coital frequency
Contraceptive choice
Condom non-use
Sexual behavior
Oral contraceptive pills
Depo medroxyprogesterone acetate
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• September-2006
Purpose
Imperfect oral contraceptive pill (OCP) regimen adherence may impair contraceptive effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to describe daily adherence patterns of OCP use, to analyze OCP...
Adolescent
Ocp
Condom
Coital event
Ocp (oral contraceptive pill)
Contraceptive adherence
Birth control
Sexual health
Pregnancy prevention
Contraceptive effectiveness
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• September-2006
Purpose
Among adolescent women, having older sexual partners has been associated with initial Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) infection and high-risk behaviors. This study evaluates the role of older part...
Chlamydia trachomatis (ct)
Chlamydia infection
Recurrent chlamydia
Adolescent women
Sexual partners
Older partners
Condom use
Partner treatment
Partner referral
Patient-delivered partner treatment (pdpt)
+22 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• September-1999
Objective: To describe the types and sources of social support received by adolescents obtaining care at a large urban sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic.
Method: A total of 140 females and 8...
Adolescents
Social support
Gender differences
Sexually transmitted diseases
Health care delivery
Sexually transmitted diseases (std)
Std care-seeking
Adolescent health
Std clinic
Sexual health
+16 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health Care
• September-1988
Testicular self-examination has been proposed as a screening technique for the early detection of testicular neoplasms. Previous work suggests that few adolescent males have received instruction in th...
Testicular self-examination (tse)
Adolescent males
Testicular neoplasms
Cancer screening
Physician practice patterns
Adolescent health education
Preventive medicine
Health screening
Medical training
Patient education
+15 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2025
Introduction. Despite a demonstrated relationship between sexual behaviors and health, including clinical risks, little is known about contemporary sexual behavior.
Aims. To assess the rates of sex...
Sexual behavior
United states
National survey
Sexual health
Adolescents
Adults
Masturbation
Oral sex
Vaginal intercourse
Anal intercourse
+17 more
Journal: Children and Youth Services Review
• October-2020
Little is known about differences in the levels of sexual well-being, sexual identity development, or sexual health outcomes between sexual minority and non-sexual minority youth in the foster care sy...
Sexual development
Lgbtq+ youth
Sexual health outcomes
Foster youth
Child welfare
Sexual identity development
Sexual well-being
Sexual minority youth
Non-sexual minority youth
Foster care system
+14 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• October-2018
Trust is experienced almost constantly in all forms of social and interpersonal relationships, including sexual relationships, and may contribute both directly and indirectly to sexual health. The pur...
Trust
Sexual trust
Sexual health
Sexual relationships
Sti prevention
Condom use
Monogamy
Non-monogamy
Interpersonal trust
Public health
+10 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• October-2018
Objectives Feelings of intimacy, perceptions of partner concurrency (PPC) and perceptions of risk for an STD (PRSTD) are meaningful and dynamic attributes of adolescent sexual relationships. Our objec...
Adolescent
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Sexual behavior
Sexual health
Sti risk
Trust in relationships
Partner concurrency
Perceived risk of std (prstd)
Intimacy
+25 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• October-2017
Purpose
The HIV Care Continuum highlights the need for HIV-infected youth to be tested, linked, and maintained in lifelong care. Care engagement is important for HIV-infected youth in order for them...
Adolescents
Health care transition
Hiv
Hiv care
Youth
Care continuum
Adult providers
Adolescent clinics
Care engagement
Viral suppression
+11 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• October-2017
Previous research has suggested that sexually aggressive behavior and sexual HIV risk behavior are associated. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a well-established risk factor for both types of problema...
Child sexual abuse
Sexual aggression
Hiv risk behavior
Negative affect
Anxiety
Depression
Anger
Sexual risk factors
Heterosexual men
Structural equation modeling
+20 more
Journal: AIDS Patient Care and STDs
• October-2017
It is important for both individual- and population-level health that HIV-infected individuals progress through the Care Continuum. However, HIV-infected youth frequently disengage from care during tr...
Hiv-infected youth
Hiv care continuum
Transition to adult care
Adolescent hiv providers
Adult hiv providers
Hiv treatment
Medication adherence
Viral suppression
Youth healthcare transition
Hiv service delivery
+17 more
Journal: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• October-2017
Objective
To examine knowledge of Zika transmission and risk perception and to assess variability by condom use in a probability sample of sexually-active adults in the United States.
Methods
Dat...
Zika virus infection
Prevention & control
Sexual health
United states
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• October-2016
Purpose
Developmental models link sexual well-being to physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being, yet little empirical literature evaluates these relationships in adolescents. Better understa...
Adolescent women
Sexual health
Physical health
Mental health
Social health
Sexual well-being
Substance use
Depression
Self-esteem
Delinquent behavior
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
• October-2016
Purpose
To maximize positive health outcomes for youth with HIV as they transition from youth to adult care, clinical staff need strategies and protocols to help youth maintain clinic engagement and...
Hiv
Transition
Adolescents
Young adults
Healthcare
Transition protocols
Adolescent medicine
Care engagement
Medication adherence
Health outcomes
+10 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• October-2014
Previous social and behavioral research on identity among bisexual men, when not subsumed within the category of men who have sex with men (MSM), has primarily focused on samples of self-identified bi...
Bisexuality
Sexual identity
Bisexual men
Men who have sex with men and women (msmw)
Sexual orientation
Self-identification
Identity diversity
Sexual behavior
Lgbtq+ health
Identity trajectories
+40 more
Journal: Research in Nursing & Health
• October-2014
The roles of glycemic control, diabetes management, diabetes care responsibility, living independently of parents, and time since high school graduation in predicting diabetes-related quality of life...
Diabetes-related quality of life
Type 1 diabetes
Emerging adults
Glycemic control
Diabetes management
Self-care
Self-management
Diabetes care responsibility
Living independently
High school graduation
+20 more
Journal: AIDS and Behavior
• October-2013
Early linkage to care and engagement in care are critical for initiation of medical interventions. However, over 50 % of newly diagnosed persons do not receive HIV-related care within 6 months of diag...
Adolescents
Hiv
Linkage to care
Engagement in care
Journal: AIDS
• October-2013
Sexual health is an evolving paradigm that integrates a positive approach to sexuality with existing public health policy and practice for reducing the burdens of sexually transmitted infections, incl...
Sexual health
Sexual rights
Sexual knowledge
Sexual choice
Sexual pleasure
Sexual desire
Sexual arousal
Sexual function
Sexual behaviors
Public health
+8 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescence
• October-2013
Understanding the role of socio-sexual cognitions and religiosity on adolescent sexual behavior could guide adolescent sexual health efforts. The present study utilized longitudinal data from 328 youn...
Adolescence
Religion
Sexual behavior
Sexual conservatism
Longitudinal study
Socio-sexual cognitions
Sexual health
Adolescent development
Sexual experience
Sexual attitudes
+30 more
Journal: Vaccine
• October-2013
Objectives
Because little is known about the content of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine-related discussions with young adolescent girls in clinical settings, we explored communication between 11-...
Adolescents
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Hpv vaccination
Vaccine communication
Parental influence
Clinician-patient communication
Vaccine efficacy
Vaccine safety
Sexual health education
Healthcare communication
+20 more
Journal: Sexual Health
• October-2012
Background: Although jail screening programs have an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmissible infections (STI) and HIV among incarcerated individuals, many arrestees are...
Community-based participatory research
Community court
Sex workers
Sexually transmitted infections
Testing
Community-based participatory research (cbpr)
Court-based programs
Justice-involved women
Sexual health
Sti screening
+23 more
Journal: Child: Care, Health and Development
• October-2011
Background: Emerging adults with diabetes are assuming diabetes care responsibility, graduating from high school and leaving their parental homes. We examined: (1) how diabetes care responsibility cha...
Emerging adults
Type 1 diabetes
Diabetes care responsibility
Self-efficacy
Hypoglycemia worry
Glycemic control
Gender differences
High school transition
Post-high school
Independent living
+16 more
Journal: Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology
• October-2011
Purpose of review
Pregnancy prevention efforts in the USA have largely focused on the use of hormonal contraceptive methods, relegating male condoms to discussions of ‘dual-method’ contraception or...
Adolescent condom use
Condom use trends
Teen sexual health
Pregnancy prevention
Dual-method contraception
Sexually transmitted infection (sti) prevention
Contraceptive methods
Condom negotiation
Safe sex practices
Condom design improvements
+14 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Past surveys of sexual behavior have demonstrated that female sexual behavior is influenced by medical and sociocultural changes. To be most attentive to women and their sexual lives, it...
Women
Sexual behavior
Probability sample
United states
Nsshb
Solo masturbation
Partnered sexual activities
Oral sex
Vaginal intercourse
Anal intercourse
+19 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction
In the contemporary U.S., men and women are living longer and healthier lives. As such, many people spend greater portions of their lives as sexually active individuals. Yet, little is k...
Older adults
Aging
Condoms
Sexual health
Sexual behavior
Sexual experiences of men and women over age 50 years
Condom use
Sexual experiences
Sexual pleasure
Erectile difficulties
+12 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Given the efficacy of latex condoms for preventing pregnancy, HIV, and most STI, their promotion remains central to global sexual health efforts. To inform the development of accurate an...
Condom use
Sexual health
Probability sample
Sexual behavior
Sti prevention
Pregnancy prevention
Public health
Adolescent sexual behavior
Adult sexual behavior
Gender differences
+7 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Although studies of specific groups of individuals (e.g., adolescents, “high risk” samples) have examined sexual repertoire, little is known, at the population level, about the sexual be...
Sexual behaviors
Sexual event
Probability sample
United states
Adult sexuality
Partnered sexual activity
Sexual experience
Orgasm
Arousal
Erectile function
+20 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Although studies of specific groups of individuals (e.g., adolescents, “high risk” samples) have examined sexual repertoire, little is known, at the population level, about the sexual be...
Sexual behaviors
Sexual event
Probability sample
United states
Adult sexuality
Partnered sexual activity
Sexual experience
Orgasm
Arousal
Erectile function
+20 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction
Although women’s total removal of their pubic hair has been described as a “new norm,” little is known about the pubic hair removal patterns of sexually active women in the United States...
Pubic hair
Female sexual function
Depilation
Genital self-image
Female genital self-image scale
Pubic hair removal
Female grooming practices
Sexual health
Depilation methods
Female genital self-image scale (fgsis)
+12 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction
To provide a foundation for those who provide sexual health services and programs to men in the United States, the need for population‐based data that describes men’s sexual behaviors an...
Probability sample
Sexual behavior
Men
Relationships
Health
Men's sexual behavior
Sexual health
Male sexuality
Sexual relationships
Solo masturbation
+14 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Data on adolescents' sexual and condom use behaviors provides an empirical basis for a range of social, educational, clinical, and public health endeavors.
Aims. This study has two pu...
Adolescents
Sexual behavior
Condom use
Vaginal intercourse
Masturbation prevalence
Partnered sexual activities
Oral sex
Anal intercourse
Safe sex practices
Risk behaviors
+53 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October-2010
Introduction. Correct and consistent condom use remains the most effective way to reduce sexually transmissible infection/HIV transmission during sex and is a highly effective contraceptive method. Un...
Condom use
Sexual event
Unprotected intercourse
Penile–vaginal intercourse (pvi)
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Hiv prevention
Contraceptive methods
Sexual health
Public health
Safe sex practices
+20 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• October-2009
Little is known about men’s potential motivations and barriers associated with specific sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing methods. In this study, we examined experiences of self-sampling f...
Ano-rectal
Msm
Sexually transmitted diseases
Self-sampling
Sti testing
Men who have sex with men
Rectal swab
Sexual health
Public health
Self-administered testing
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• October-2008
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to assess adolescent women's preferences for specific microbicide characteristics including pregnancy prevention, timing of application, potential for side effec...
Vaginal microbicides
Adolescent sexual health
Sti prevention
Hiv prevention
Pregnancy prevention
Microbicide preferences
Contraceptive preferences
Sexual behavior
Hormonal contraception
Urban adolescent health
+44 more
Journal: The Journal of Pediatrics
• October-2003
Clinical depression among adolescents is relatively common, with an annual prevalence of 2% to 4%, and cumulative prevalence during adolescence of 25%.1 Diagnosed cases likely represent a “tip of the...
Socioeconomic status
Schools and depression
Adolescent depression
Social epidemiology
Teen mental health
Depression risk factors
Household income and depression
School-level income
Socioeconomic disparities
Adolescent mental health
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• October-2002
Objectives: To determine the association between stigma and shame about having a sexually transmitted disease and adolescents’ past STD related care seeking; between stigma, shame, and perceptions abo...
Sexual disclosure
Std stigma
Std shame
Adolescent sexual health
Healthcare disclosure
Std care seeking
Sexual behavior
Stigma perception
Shame perception
Doctor-patient communication
+18 more
Journal: AIDS Patient Care and STDs
• October-1998
High rates of sexual activity among adolescents place them at significant risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV infection. This article summarizes our recent research addressing potent...
Adolescents
Alcohol use
Drug use
Std risk
Hiv risk
Risky sexual behavior
Substance use
Sexual activity
Public health
Sexual health
+10 more
Journal: The Journal of Pediatrics
• October-1994
The purpose of this investigation was to study the occurrence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in relation to the interval between menarche and first intercourse. Two hundred eight subjects, ag...
Menarche
First sexual intercourse
Human papillomavirus (hpv) infection
Adolescents
Sexual health
Hpv risk factors
Biologic vulnerability
Sexual debut
Papanicolaou smear
Hpv prevalence
+6 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• October-1989
A retrospective analysis of 7,879 direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) tests for Chlamydia trachomatis obtained over 24 months from a routine screening program for adolescent women is reported. Tests wer...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Routine screening
Adolescent females
Sexually transmitted infections
Sti screening
Direct fluorescent antibody test
Dfa testing
Chlamydia prevalence
Case finding
Rescreening intervals
+15 more
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
• October-1987
To the Editor.— In a recent issue of JAMA, Zumwalt and others1 described a man with factitious acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The purpose of the man's deception as perceived by the author...
Fraudulent aids
Munchausen's syndrome
Factitious disorder
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome aids
Human immunodeficiency virus hiv
Medical deception
Narcotic fraud
Chronic factitious disorder
Psychological manipulation
Healthcare fraud
+16 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• October 2010
Introduction. Although studies of specific groups of individuals (e.g., adolescents, “high risk” samples) have examined sexual repertoire, little is known, at the population level, about the sexual be...
Sexual behaviors
Sexual event
Probability sample
United states
Adult sexuality
Partnered sexual activity
Sexual experience
Orgasm
Arousal
Erectile function
+42 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• November-2021
Solo and partnered sexual behaviors are relevant to health, well-being, and relationships. Recent research shows that sexual frequency has declined in the U.S. and in other countries; however, measure...
Penile-vaginal intercourse frequency
Masturbation
Sexual frequency
Sexual repertoire
National survey of sexual health and behavior (nsshb)
Penile-vaginal intercourse (pvi)
Sexual behavior trends
Partnered sexual activities
Solo masturbation
Sexual health
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Urban Health
• November-2019
Delayed linkage to care deprives youth living with HIV of the benefits of HIV treatment and risks increased HIV transmission. Developing and testing linkage-to-care models that are capable of simultan...
Youth
Adolescence
Hiv/aids
Linkageto-care
Structural change
Hiv linkage to care
Youth hiv treatment
Adolescents living with hiv
Timely hiv care access
Hiv case management
+25 more
Journal: Clinical Pediatrics
• November-2019
Using data from 600 adolescents (14-17 years old) from the 2015 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, we examined the prevalence and demographic correlates of adolescents’ romantic activities...
Adolescent romantic experiences
Teen dating
Romantic competencies
Adolescent relationships
Group dating
Dyadic dating
Teenage relationship involvement
Youth romantic development
Dating confidence
Unwanted romantic experiences
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
• November-2018
Research demonstrates health disparities between gender-minority individuals and cisgender individuals. These disparities arise from multiple sources, including negative health care experiences. This...
Transgender
Genderqueer
Gender non-binary
Health care providers
Health disparities
Inclusive language
Identity disclosure
Misgendering
Transphobia
Cultural safety
+11 more
Journal: AJOB Empirical Bioethics
• November-2016
Background: Biomedical HIV prevention research with minors is complicated by the requirement of parental consent, which may disclose sensitive information to parents. We examine the experience of prin...
Adolescents
Hiv
Moral conflict
Clinical trial
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep)
Parental consent
Biomedical research
Ethical dilemmas
Principal investigators
Study personnel
+19 more
Journal: Sexual Health
• November-2016
Background: Understanding people’s sexual motivations has long been of public health and health promotion interest. We used daily diaries to examine how adult men’s and women’s event-specific affectiv...
Sexual motivation
Sexual behavior
Event-level analysis
Daily diary study
Affective influences
Partner dynamics
Coital behavior
Non-coital behavior
Vaginal sex
Sexual decision-making
+22 more
Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases
• November-2014
Chlamydia trachomatis causes a high number of sexually transmitted infections worldwide, but reproducible and precise strain typing to link partners is lacking. We evaluated multilocus sequence typing...
Mlst
Chlamydia trachomatis
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
Multilocus sequence typing (mlst)
Strain typing
Sequence types (st)
Ompa genotype
Heterosexual partnerships
Coital partners
Phylogenetic relationships
+21 more
Journal: Maternal and Child Health Journal
• November-2014
Leadership development is a core value of Maternal Child Health Bureau training programs. Mentorship, an MCH Leadership Competency, has been shown to positively affect career advancement and research...
Mentorship
Developmental networks
Adolescent health
Leadership
Maternal child health
Mch training programs
Career advancement
Research productivity
Junior faculty development
Leadership competencies
+15 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• November-2013
Background. Persistent infection with oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with an increased risk of cervical malignancy. Redetection of type-specific HPV after a period of nondetection...
Human papillomavirus
Chlamydia
Hpv redetection
Journal: PLOS ONE
• November-2013
Background
Various forms of community disorder are associated with health outcomes but little is known about how dynamic context where an adolescent spends time relates to her health-related behavior...
Community disorder
Adolescent risk behavior
Crime exposure
Substance use
Sexual behavior
Urban environment
Geographic monitoring
Gps tracking
Health disparities
Neighborhood safety
+16 more
Journal: The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care
• November-2012
Purpose
The purpose of the study was to examine the association of time (high school to post-high school), living situation (independent of parents or not), diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and worry...
Type 1 diabetes
Emerging adults
Independent living
Diabetes management
Diabetes-specific self-efficacy
Hypoglycemia worry
High school transition
Post-high school
Self-care
Glycemic control
+20 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• November-2011
Introduction
Recent nationally representative studies documenting event‐level sexual behavior have included samples that are predominantly heterosexual, resulting in limited information on the sexual...
Sexual event
Gay
Bisexual
Men
Sexual behavior
Msm
Gay and bisexual men
Sexual event characteristics
Msm (men who have sex with men)
Sexual repertoire
+18 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• November-2011
Objective To evaluate the role of self-efficacy, anticipated negative consequences, and relationship quality in patient-initiated sex partner notification following treatment for sexually transmitted...
Self-efficacy
Relationship quality
Partner notification
Sexually transmitted infections
Adolescents
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Trichomonas
Urethritis
Partner communication
+8 more
Journal: Sexual and Relationship Therapy
• November-2011
Orgasm is typically considered to be a sexual experience. However, orgasms occurring during physical exercise have been occasionally documented. The primary objective of the current study was to under...
Exercise-induced orgasm
Exercise-induced sexual pleasure
Female orgasm
Sexual physiology
Abdominal exercises
Biking
Spinning
Weight lifting
Climbing
Self-consciousness
+22 more
Journal: PLOS ONE
• November-2010
Background
The microbiome of the male urogenital tract is poorly described but it has been suggested that bacterial colonization of the male urethra might impact risk of sexually transmitted infectio...
Male urine microbiome
Urogenital tract
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Asymptomatic infections
Urethral microbiota
16s rrna sequencing
Bacterial colonization
Anaerobic bacteria
Fastidious bacteria
Urethral inflammation
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• November-2009
Background:
Testing for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) antibody is not common in clinical practice. Client characteristics associated with HSV-2 rapid antibody test uptake and test positivity w...
Hsv-2
Hsv-2 testing
Herpes simplex virus type 2
Sexually transmitted infections
Std clinic
Antibody testing
Public health
Herpeselect express
Hsv-2 prevalence
Sexual health
+20 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• November-2004
Background:
The rates and determinants of acceptance of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) testing have not been adequately studied.
Objectives:
The objective of this study was to identify fac...
Hsv-2 testing
Herpes simplex virus
Antibody testing
Std screening
Sexual health
Adolescent health
Young adults
Std history
Sexual behavior
Serologic testing
+20 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• November-2004
Purpose
To examine gay youth experiences within the context of normal adolescent development.
Methods
Thematic analyses of interviews with 13 self-identified gay male youth, aged 16–22 years, each...
Adolescence
Male
Sexual minority
Gay
Adjustment issues
Developmental asynchrony
Peers
Families
Sexual harassment
Lgbtq+ youth
+30 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• November-2004
Background:
The demographic, historical, and behavioral factors that predict a positive herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) antibody test in persons without a history of genital herpes have not been...
Hsv
Herpes simplex virus type 2 (hsv-2)
Antibody positivity
Genital herpes
Sexually transmitted disease (std)
Hsv-2 screening
Sexual health
Std risk factors
Hsv-2 testing
Hsv-2 predictors
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• November-2003
Purpose
To examine how subject payment was associated with study features, such as investigator characteristics and project specifics, among randomly selected studies using adolescent subjects.
Meth...
Adolescent research
Subject payment
Compensation
Research funding
Participant incentives
Recruitment strategies
Payment variability
Research ethics
Investigator characteristics
Study design
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• November-1999
Background:
The frequently asymptomatic nature and high incidence of severe complications of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) calls for targeted efforts to identify those at greatest risk. Earlie...
Sexual history elicitation
Std services
Gonorrhea community action project (gcap)
Provider practice patterns
Sexual health counseling
Std prevention
Sexual risk assessment
Healthcare provider training
Patient communication
Std diagnosis
+6 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• November-1999
Adolescents rated hypothetical human immunodeficiency virus vaccines described as 90% and 50% efficacious and discussed how immunization might influence behavior of their peers. The low-efficacy vacci...
Aids vaccine
Attitude
Sex behavior
Patient acceptance of health care
Hiv prevention
Vaccine efficacy
Adolescent health
Risk compensation
Immunization programs
Sexual risk behavior
+20 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• November-1997
Background and Objectives:
Little is known about the acceptability of vaccines for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases(STDs). The purpose of this study was to examine potential predictors of...
Genital herpes
Hsv-2
Vaccine acceptability
Health beliefs
Health behaviors
Sexually transmitted diseases
Immunization
Risk perception
Preventive health
Clinical trials
+23 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• November-1997
Objective: To expand understanding of the behavioral epidemiology of an important sexually transmitted disease risk factor within a clinical framework of the AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive...
Adolescent health
Number of sexual partners
Health lifestyle
Ama guidelines
Adolescent preventive services (gaps)
Sexually transmitted disease (std) risk
Behavioral epidemiology
Adolescent sexual behavior
Health-risk behaviors
Health-protective behaviors
+14 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health Care
• November-1989
We report the case of a 16-year-old female who developed pulmonary infection due to Pneumocystis carinii within 3 months of the clinical diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Steroid therap...
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (pjp)
Opportunistic infections
Pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus
Immunosuppression
Corticosteroid therapy
Pulmonary complications in sle
Adolescent autoimmune diseases
Respiratory failure
Lupus-associated infections
Differential diagnosis in sle
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
• May-2020
Background:
Almost one-quarter of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States occur among persons aged 13–24 years. These youths have the poorest HIV care continuum (HCC) outcomes, yet few empirical...
Adolescents
Hiv infection
Hiv care continuum (hcc)
Youth-friendly care
Antiretroviral therapy (art)
Viral suppression (vs)
Linkage to care
Engagement in care
Retention in care
Hiv diagnosis
+7 more
Journal: Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
• May-2019
Using data from 78 sexting-experienced adolescents from the 2015 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, we describe sexting frequency, sexting partners, sexual relationships with such partners...
Adolescent Sexting
Sexting Behavior
Digital Communication
Sexting Frequency
Romantic Partners
Sexual Relationships
Sexting Trends
Youth Sexual Behavior
Online Risk
Digital Intimacy
+15 more
Journal: AIDS Education and Prevention
• May-2017
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy emphasizes rapid care linkage and engagement for HIV-infected individuals, though many adolescents are never tested, delay entering care, and frequently drop out. We con...
Adolescent health
Hiv/aids
Linkage to care
Engagement in care
Hiv-infected youth
Care retention
Youth agency
Health system
Hiv testing
Delayed care entry
+16 more
Journal: Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services
• May-2016
Routine HIV screening, linkage, and retention in health care are nodes of the HIV continuum of care and goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. However, up to 80% of youth are unaware of their HIV st...
Hiv testing
Linkage
Adolescents/young adults
Community coalitions
Hiv continuum of care
Structural barriers
Hiv screening
Linkage to care
Retention in care
National hiv/aids strategy
+17 more
Journal: AIDS
• May-2014
Objectives:
To describe the HIV viral load and CD4+ cell counts of youth (12–24 years) in 14 cities from March 2010 through November 2011.
Methods:
Baseline HIV viral load and CD4+ cell count d...
Cd4+ cell count
Hiv
Viral load
Youth
Linkage to care
Male-to-male sexual contact (msm)
Hiv transmission
Public health
Hiv testing
Antiretroviral therapy
+11 more
Journal: Journal of Bisexuality
• May-2012
Research has not yet explored the potential impact of social stress, biphobia and other factors on the mental health of bisexual men. In-depth interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of 75 men...
Bisexuality
Mental health
Men who have sex with both men and women (msmw)
Stress
Social support
Biphobia
Stigma
Sexual identity
Isolation
Community building
+10 more
Journal: Social Science & Medicine
• May-2012
Most models exploring adolescent health behavior have focused on individual influences to understand behavior change. The goal of the current study was to assess the role of adolescent romantic partne...
Usa
Adolescence
Health behavior
Romantic couples
Adolescent relationships
Partner influence
Health-harming behaviors
Health-protective behaviors
Delinquency
Alcohol use
+23 more
Journal: Journal of Bisexuality
• May-2012
The midwestern United States has a high number of recent Latino migrants, but little information is available regarding their sexual behaviors. A total of 75 behaviorally bisexual men (25 Latino, 25 B...
Latino
Lgbtq+
Bisexuality
Latino men
Men who have sex with both men and women (msmw)
Sexual behavior
Sexual experience
Hispanic
Sexual health
Sti screening
+24 more
Journal: Journal of Bisexuality
• May-2012
Studies concerning behaviorally bisexual men continue to focus on understanding sexual risk according to a narrow range of sexual behaviors. Few studies have explored the subjective meanings and exper...
Bisexuality
Men who have sex with men and women (msmw)
Sexual behaviors
Sexual attraction
Condom use
Gender norms
Sexual risk
Sexual health
Safe sex practices
Public health
+18 more
Journal: Hormones and Behavior
• May-2011
Theoretical and empirical linkages of adult women's sexual interest and sexual behaviors are relatively well-established, but few data address similar issues in adolescent women. This paper reviews da...
Adolescence
Sexual interest
Sexual behavior
Oral sex
Anal sex
Daily diary
Longitudinal study
Coitus
First lifetime coitus
Fellatio
+27 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• May-2011
Purpose
The aim of the study was to better characterize the natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in female adolescents.
Methods
Female adolescents were enrolled in a longitudina...
Human papillomavirus
Hpv infection
Multiple infections
Female adolescents
Natural history
Longitudinal study
Sexual activity
Hpv prevalence
High-risk hpv
Low-risk hpv
+21 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• May-2009
Introduction
Use of feminine hygiene products (feminine wipes, sprays, douches, and yeast creams) by adolescent women is common, yet understudied.
Aim
We examine the association among these genit...
Sexually transmitted diseases
Vaginal douching
Feminine hygiene product
Adolescent
Condom
Female
Feminine hygiene products
Adolescent health
Condom use
Sti risk
+24 more
Journal: International Journal of Health Geographics
• May-2008
Background
Few tools exist to directly measure the microsocial and physical environments of adolescents in circumstances where participatory observation is not practical or ethical. Yet measuring the...
Gps tracking
Adolescent travel patterns
Health risk behaviors
Mobile health (mhealth)
Adolescent health
Geospatial research
Surveillance technology
Behavioral monitoring
Daily diary data
Clinic-based research
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• May-2007
Purpose
Mycoplasma genitalium is a possible sexually transmitted pathogen and its study among the adolescent age group has been limited. In this longitudinal study, the epidemiology, natural history,...
Mycoplasma genitalium
Chlamydia trachomatis
Sexually transmitted diseases
Epidemiology
Adolescent women
Polymerase chain reaction
Sti testing
Sexual behavior
Urogenital infections
Adolescent health
+11 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
• May-2005
Objective To develop and initially test the psychometric properties of parent and adolescent versions of the Diabetes-Specific Parental Support for Adolescents’ Autonomy Scale. Methods Data-based scal...
Diabetes
Adolescents
Autonomy
Parental support
Type 1 diabetes (t1d)
Diabetes management
Psychometric testing
Scale development
Content validity
Principal components analysis (pca)
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• May-2004
Objective
To evaluate the effect of vaginal bleeding on the likelihood of coitus among adolescent women.
Methods
Participants were 191 sexually active women aged 14 to 21 years enrolled from a sexu...
Pregancy
Adolescent
Adolescent behavior
Vaginal bleeding
Coitus
Sexual activity
Condom use
Sexual health
Reproductive health
Menstrual cycle
+21 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• May-2001
Background
The temporal pattern of partners and sexual encounters may be key factors in the acquisition and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Behavior among adolescent women is o...
Sexual behavior
Adolescent women
Sexually transmitted infections
Stds
Partner sequence
Partner overlap
High-risk behavior
Coital diary
Sexual partners
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
+39 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• May-1999
Objective: To develop a multidimensional classification of sexual partnerships.
Methods: Eighty-two female subjects (ages 15–20 years; 77% African American) used coital logs to record dates of 1265 c...
Adolescent sexual partnerships
Sexual relationship patterns
Coital events
Partner dynamics
Serial monogamy
Concurrent partnerships
Condom use
Sexual health
Sti prevention
Risk assessment
+20 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• May-1997
Objectives:
To determine the criterion-related validity of alternative approaches to the measurement of sexual intercourse using sexually transmitted diseases (STD) as a biomarker (the criterion)....
Adolescent women
Sexual behavior
Self-report
Validity
Std
Biomarker
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Chlamydia trachomatis
Trichomonas vaginalis
Sexual health
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• May-1997
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of health beliefs to intention to accept human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccination.
Methods:
Respondents were 81 female and...
Hiv
Aids
Vaccine
Health beliefs
Immunization
Vaccination intent
Perceived susceptibility
Perceived severity
Risk perception
Public health
+20 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health Care
• May-1986
Incestuous child sexual abuse has received increasing attention recently, but relatively little attention has focused on the multigenerational dimensions of this problem. The case presented places inc...
Incest
Sexual abuse
Family patterns
Child abuse
Sexual deviancy
Multigenerational abuse
Sister-sister incest
Child sexual abuse (csa)
Familial trauma
Intergenerational trauma
+21 more
Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
• March-2023
The origin, composition, and significance of the distal male urethral microbiome are unclear, but vaginal microbiome dysbiosis is linked to new sex partners and several urogynecological syndromes. We...
Male genitourinary microbiome
Sexual behavior
Urethral microbiome
Vaginal dysbiosis
Urethral health
Metagenomics
Lactic acid bacteria
Corynebacterium
Urogenital microbiology
Microbiome composition
+28 more
Journal: BMJ Open
• March-2022
Objective To examine victimisation rates, geographic patterns and neighbourhood characteristics associated with non-fatal firearm injury rates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design A retr...
Firearm injury
Non-fatal firearm injury
Gun violence
Covid-19 pandemic
Epidemiology
Victimization rates
Geographic patterns
Neighborhood characteristics
Retrospective cohort study
Indianapolis
+41 more
Journal: eClinicalMedicine
• March-2021
Stigma refers to socially undesirable attributes of individuals or groups, associated with isolation, rejection, and discrimination. Stigma is an essential contributor in the causal web of sexually tr...
Sti prevention
Sti control programs
Sexual health stigma
Gender stigma
Sti-related discrimination
Public health and stis
Health inequities
Sexual orientation and health
Gender expression and stis
Hiv stigma
+16 more
Journal: Child Welfare
• March-2020
This study evaluates the impact of broad and singular measures of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and severity of sexual abuse on sexual well-being among youth formerly in the foster care system (...
Adverse childhood experiences (ace)
Sexual well-being
Foster care system
Youth formerly in foster care (yffc)
Sexual abuse severity
Childhood trauma
Sexual health outcomes
Mental health
Substance use
Family dynamics
+10 more
Journal: eGEMs
• March-2018
Introduction: Although researchers recognize that sharing disparate data can improve population health, barriers (technical, motivational, economic, political, legal, and ethical) limit progress. In t...
Data sharing
Data partnerships
Population health
Electronic health records (ehr)
Data-sharing barriers
Criminal justice data
Public health data
Health informatics
Data governance
Research collaboration
+13 more
Journal: Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
• March-2016
Little is known about current attitudes in the United States toward having sex during pregnancy. It is possible that pregnant women and their sexual partners hold beliefs and have feelings during this...
Maternal sex during pregnancy
Partner sex during pregnancy
Sexual attitudes
Pregnancy sexuality
Relationship satisfaction
Sexual health
Intimate relationships
Prenatal care
Pregnancy beliefs
Sexual distress
+20 more
Journal: AIDS Care
• March-2015
HIV vaccine trials with minors will likely require parental permission and informed assent from adolescents. For this to be a valid process, the information needs to be presented in a manner that prom...
Clinical trials
Hiv infection and aids
Aids
Research ethics
Informed consent
Hiv vaccine trials
Adolescents
Hiv infection
Assent process
Web-based learning
+12 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• March-2015
Objectives Assessments of sexual safety often rely on questions about the occurrence of condom use within a designated timeline, assuming that penile–vaginal intercourse (PVI) occurred once at the con...
Sexual safety
Sexual behavior
Timeline followback
Condom use
Sexual acts
Bisexual women
Sexual risk
Penile-vaginal intercourse
Sequence calendar
Sexual health
+39 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• March-2014
This study was designed to systematically compare and contrast the psychometric properties of three scales developed to measure sexual satisfaction and a single-item measure of sexual satisfaction. Th...
Sexual satisfaction
Psychometric comparison
Index of sexual satisfaction (iss)
Global measure of sexual satisfaction (gmsex)
New sexual satisfaction scale–short (nsss-s)
Single-item measure
Scale reliability
Scale validity
Convergent validity
Internal consistency
+10 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• March-2014
Introduction
Use of commercial lubricant is common in the United States among adult women. However, little is known about the sexual behaviors for which women use lubricant, women's perceptions of lu...
Lubricant
Vaginal lubrication
Sexual pleasure
Sexual comfort
Sexual well-being
Women's sexual health
Partnered intercourse
Foreplay
Sexual behavior
Intimacy
+22 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• March-2014
Background
To avoid positive results attributable to residual DNA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends avoiding repeat testing with nucleic-acid based tests within 3 weeks afte...
Polymerase chain reaction
Pcr
Dna detection
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Nucleic acid amplification test
Naat
Post-treatment testing
Residual dna
+11 more
Journal: APA handbook of sexuality and psychology
• March-2014
In this chapter, we use sexual health as an organizing paradigm for a life course perspective on sexuality. Sexual health broadly refers to the functions of sex and sexuality in all stages of life, em...
Sexual health
Sexuality
Life-span sexuality
Sexual rights
Sexual justice
Partnering
Sexual behavior
Identity
Well-being
Developmental stages
+20 more
Journal: The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care
• March-2014
Purpose
Little is known about the relationship of worry about hypoglycemia with diabetes-specific and typical youth behaviors among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes. This study’s purpose was to e...
Hypoglycemia anxiety
Diabetes self-management
Emerging adulthood
Type 1 diabetes care
Blood sugar regulation
Glycemic variability
Diabetes-related distress
Alcohol and diabetes
Weight control behaviors
Impulse control
+15 more
Journal: Infection and Immunity
• March-2014
Mycoplasma genitalium causes persistent urogenital tract infection in humans. Antigenic variation of the protein encoded by the MG192 gene has been proposed as one of the mechanisms for persistence. T...
Mycoplasma genitalium
Mg192 gene
Antigenic variation
Chronic infection
Urogenital tract
Immune evasion
Sequence variation
Genetic diversity
Bacterial persistence
Pathogen evolution
+20 more
Journal: Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexuality Developmental and Forensic Psychology
• March-2013
This chapter examines adolescent sexuality development framed by three
key aspects of sexual behavior: abstinence; masturbation; and partnered
sexual activities. This framing resonates with recent t...
Adolescent sexuality
Sexual development
Abstinence
Masturbation
Partnered sexual activities
Healthy adolescent development
Sexual behavior
First intercourse
Contraceptive use
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
+16 more
Journal: PLOS ONE
• March-2012
Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiotas are associated with reproductive health and STI resistance in women, whereas altered microbiotas are associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV), STI risk and...
Coronal sulcus microbiota
Distal urethra
Adolescent males
Bacterial communities
16s rrna sequencing
Circumcision
Vaginal taxa
Bacterial vaginosis (bv)
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
Reproductive health
+16 more
Journal: Sexual Health
• March-2012
Rectal sexually transmissible infections are a common health concern for men who have sex with men but little is known about these infections among men who have sex with both men and women. Self-obtai...
Chlamydia
Midwestern usa
Men who have sex with men
Bisexual men
Rectal sti
Self-sampling
Chlamydia trachomatis
Msm
Sti testing
Sexual health
+36 more
Journal: PLOS ONE
• March-2011
Urine is the CDC-recommended specimen for STI testing. It was unknown if the bacterial communities (microbiomes) in urine reflected those in the distal male urethra. We compared microbiomes of 32 pair...
Male urine microbiome
Urethral swab
Sti testing
Cdc guidelines
16s rrna sequencing
Urethral microbiome
Bacterial communities
Urine specimen
Std clinic
Microbial similarity
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• March-2011
Background:
It is widely believed that marijuana use and alcohol use directly intercede on successful condom use. However, measurement differences and inconsistent findings in past research remain u...
Marijuana use
Alcohol use
Condom use
Adolescent women
Sexual behavior
Vaginal sex
Substance use
Risky sexual behavior
Protective sexual practices
Longitudinal study
+20 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• March-2011
Objectives:
New sex partners put adolescents at increased risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), even when these sex partners are nonoverlapping. Although the risk of partner change is wel...
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Adolescent women
Partner change
Relationship factors
Serial monogamy
Sti risk
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Trichomonas
Condom use
+23 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• March-2010
Little research addresses the role of anal sexuality and anal sexual behaviors as a widely practiced but relatively less frequent element of a heterosexual sexual repertoire. However, the importance o...
Heterosexual anal sexuality
Anal sex behaviors
Sexual health
Anal intercourse
Sexual practices
Epidemiological studies
Clinical research
Sexual repertoire
Public health
Risk behaviors
+8 more
Journal: American Journal of Public Health
• March-2010
Objectives. We examined associations between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination, gender, and cigarette smoking among adolescents.
Methods. We examined data on Black and Latino adolescents aged...
Gender differences
Perceived discrimination
Adolescent smoking
Racial/ethnic discrimination
Gender-specific targeting
Black adolescents
Latino adolescents
Logistic regression
Discrimination and smoking
Protective factors
+13 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-2010
Purpose
To examine the distribution of and factors associated with event-level heterosexual anal sex and of event-level condom use during anal sex among adolescent women.
Methods
Adolescent women (...
Anal sex
Condoms
Adolescent women
Sexual behavior
Diary data
Event-level analysis
Risk factors
Sexual health
Condom use
Sti prevention
+15 more
Journal: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
• March-2010
CONTEXT: Adolescent pregnancy prevention is difficult because adolescent sex is intermittent. Understanding why sexually experienced adolescents have sex after a period of abstinence will help clinici...
Adolescent
Sexually transmitted disease
Affect
Survival
analysis
Sexual partner
Sexual abstinence
Adolescent sexual behavior
Adolescent pregnancy
Risk-taking
Std prevention
+44 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-2009
Some years ago, my colleagues and I were pilot-testing a self-administered survey item about condom use at most recent intercourse. The item read “Was a condom used the last time you had vaginal sex?”...
Adolescent sexual behavior
Self-report accuracy
Sexual health research
Condom use reporting
Survey reliability
Survey validity
Meaning-in-context
Sexual behavior measurement
Hiv risk assessment
Sti prevention
+16 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• March-2009
Objectives: Understanding the intention–behaviour association with HSV-2 testing is important because it can inform interventions that might be needed to support an effective HSV-2 control programme....
Herpes testing
Hsv-2
Intent to accept testing
Test acceptance
Adolescents
Young adults
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
Sti history
Genital symptoms
Health behavior
+33 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-2006
Purpose
The role of closeness of sexual partners to family and friends (i.e., how well the participant’s family and friends knew their primary sexual partner) to a variety of relationship and sexual...
Adolescent
Relationship intimacy
Sexual
Network
Condom use
Social networks
Family closeness
Friend closeness
Adolescent sexual behavior
Relationship length
+9 more
Dyadic alcohol use and relationship quality as predictors of condom non-use among adolescent females
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-2006
Abstract
We examined alcohol use concordance (respondent and partner alcohol use) and relationship quality as predictors of condom non-use among adolescent women. Both variables were significant inde...
Adolescent
Adolescent behavior
Condom use
Interpersonal relations
Alcohol drinking
Dyadic alcohol use
Relationship quality
Sexual health
Risky sexual behavior
Partner influence
+11 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-2006
Background
Our objective was to describe familial, intrapersonal, and partner-related factors associated with time of day of sexual activity among adolescent women.
Methods
Annual questionnaires an...
Sexuality
Parents
Sexual behavior
Adolescent sexual behavior
Time of day of coitus
Adolescent women
Sexual activity timing
Partner influence
Parental supervision
Family factors
+20 more
Journal: Health Psychology
• March-2005
The main objective of this study was to examine day-to-day associations of coitus, sexual interest, partner emotional support, negative mood, and positive mood among adolescent women. Diaries assessed...
Sexual activity
Adolescent women
Daily mood
Partner support
Sexual interest
Coitus
Emotional support
Negative mood
Positive mood
Diary study
+36 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• March-2005
Objective: To understand gender differences in sexual behaviours in response to genitourinary symptoms.
Methods: 473 (239 female and 234 male) subjects were enrolled at an STD clinic regardless of...
Non-gonococcal
urethritis
Gender differences
Sexual behaviors
Genitourinary symptoms
Sti
Bacterial vaginosis (bv)
Non-gonococcal urethritis (ngu)
Vaginal discharge
Urethral discharge
Dysuria
+33 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• March-2003
Background Adolescents often face barriers to health care. As pharmacists' scope of practice expands, they may be in positions to decrease barriers to care for adolescents.
Objective To describe...
Pharmacists
Adolescents
Healthcare access
Confidentiality
Emergency contraception
Prescription barriers
Adolescent health
Pharmacy practice
Pharmacist training
Contraceptive access
+43 more
Journal: American Journal of Public Health
• March-2002
Objectives. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between stigma and shame associated with seeking treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and undergoing testing for gon...
Std stigma
Std shame
Gonorrhea testing
Hiv screening
Sexual health
Public health
Std prevention
Health behavior
Healthcare utilization
Barriers to testing
+9 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• March-2002
The consistency of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) reporting was explored in this study. Two‐hundred seventeen adolescents and young adults (ages 14–24) enrolled in urban health care clinics completed se...
Childhood sexual abuse (csa)
Csa reporting
Adolescents
Young adults
Self-report questionnaires
Stability of reporting
Inconsistent reporting
Risk measures
Urban healthcare
Trauma assessment
+10 more
Journal: International Journal of STD & AIDS
• March-2000
HIV immunization programmes will only be effective if sufficient numbers of persons accept the vaccine. Our aims were to evaluate HIV vaccine acceptability among adolescents and to examine how vaccine...
Adolescence
Hiv vaccines
Aids vaccines
Vaccine acceptability
Adolescent health
Immunization programs
Vaccine efficacy
Vaccine hesitancy
Public health
Parental consent
+17 more
Journal: American Journal of Public Health
• March-1997
OBJECTIVES: This study identified social, cognitive, and behavioral factors associated with how adolescents seek health care for sexually transmitted diseases. METHODS: Data for male and female adoles...
Adolescent health
Healthcare seeking
Sexually transmitted diseases
Sti prevention
Adolescent behavior
Health barriers
Symptom recognition
Self-efficacy
Perceived seriousness
Stigma
+7 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-1995
The behavioral antecedents and correlates of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) a m o n g adolescents
are issues of clear relevance to the prevention of
STD (1). Substance use particularly of alcoh...
Adolescent substance use
Sexually transmitted diseases (std)
Risky sexual behavior
Alcohol and sexual risk
Drug use and std risk
Adolescent health
Std prevention
Substance abuse and sexual behavior
Public health
Youth risk behaviors
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• March-1992
The purpose of our study was to compare adolescents' self-reports of height and weight with measured height and weight to assess possible bias in self-report. The study was designed to be a cross-sect...
Adolescent health
Self-reported height
Self-reported weight
Measurement bias
Body weight perception
Body image
Clinical research
Survey accuracy
Anthropometric data
Weight underreporting
+10 more
Journal: Social Science & Medicine
• March-1992
In keeping with an expanded definition of culture-bound syndromes, this paper argues that adolescence in American society has been ‘medicalized’ into a full-blown symptom complex or pathologic conditi...
Adolescence
Culture-bound syndrome
Medicalization
Pathologization
Cultural identity
Age norms
Gender roles
Family dynamics
Vocational identity
Ethnic identity
+21 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• March-1989
We conducted a needs assessment and developed and evaluated a model curriculum on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) for house officers on an adolescent medicine rotation. Residents thought it impor...
Stis
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Medical education
Residency training
Adolescent health
Std prevention
Physician training
Clinical competence
House officer education
Curriculum development
+11 more
Journal: Journal of Neurotrauma
• June-2023
Being choked or strangled during partnered sex is an emerging sexual behavior, prevalent among young adult women. The goal of this study was to test whether, and to what extent, frequently being choke...
Cortical surface function
Functional connectivity
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Sexual asphyxiation
Sexual choking
Strangulation
Neurophysiological response
Resting-state fmri
Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (alff)
Regional homogeneity (reho)
+44 more
Journal: Preventive Medicine Reports
• June-2022
Victims of nonfatal shooting (NFS) assaults suffer from emotional and physical trauma; however, little is understood about clinical care utilization patterns among victims. This study examines the hea...
Nonfatal shootings
Clinical care utilization
Mental health
Firearm violence
Shooting victims
Gun violence survivors
Trauma and mental health
Post-injury healthcare
Emergency department visits
Inpatient care
+14 more
Journal: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
• June-2022
Being strangled, or “choked,” by a sexual partner has emerged as a prevalent, often wanted and consensual sexual behavior among adolescent and young adult women, yet the neurological consequences of r...
Functional neuroimaging (fmri)
Verbal working memory
Visual working memory
Sex behavior
Non-fatal strangulation
Sexual choking
Neural activation
Cognitive load
Working memory tasks
Brain function
+20 more
Journal: BMC Public Health
• June-2022
Introduction
Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV, ages 10–19) experience complex barriers to care engagement. Challenges surrounding HIV status disclosure or non-disclosure to adolescents may contribu...
Children
Youth
Disclosure
Continuity of patient care
Loss to follow‑up
Hiv status disclosure
Adolescents living with hiv alhiv
Hiv care engagement
Antiretroviral therapy art adherence
Healthcare workers hcw
+21 more
Journal: AIDS and Behavior
• June-2021
PrEP adoption among African-American men-who-have-sex-with-men (AAMSM) remains low. We applied Diffusion-of-Innovations (DOI) theory to understand PrEP adoption processes among young HIV-negative/stat...
Hiv/aids
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep)
African american
Men who have sex with men (msm)
Prep adoption
Social stigma
Health literacy
Sexual risk
Diffusion of innovations (doi)
Prep awareness
+13 more
Journal: Journal of American College Health
• June-2018
Objective: To examine, in a probability sample of undergraduate students, characteristics of students’ most recent sexual experiences (including alcohol use) as well as their experiences with nonconse...
Alcohol
Sexual consent
Sexual pleasure
Wantedness
Nonconsensual sex
Undergraduate students
Sexual assault
College students
Sexual experiences
Alcohol use
+7 more
Journal: AIDS Care
• June-2017
HIV-infected adolescents have disproportionately low rates of care retention and viral suppression. Approximately half disengage from care while transitioning to adult clinics, in part due to fragment...
Hiv/aids
Adolescent health
Care transition
Transition barriers
Health care retention
Viral suppression
Youth hiv care
Structural barriers
Clinical barriers
Individual barriers
+10 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• June-2017
Question Which HIV testing strategies best reach youths at high risk of infection?
Findings In this cohort study, targeted testing strategies performed significantly better at reaching young sexu...
Hiv testing strategies
Youth hiv prevention
Targeted hiv screening
Universal hiv screening
Sexual minority males
Hiv-positive youths
Hiv risk factors
Community-based testing
Biomedical prevention services
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep)
+26 more
Journal: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
• June-2016
Objective:
To examine how the time from HIV testing to care referral and from referral to care linkage influenced time to care engagement for newly diagnosed HIV-infected adolescents.
Methods:...
Hiv
Adolescent
Time to linkage
Care engagement
Care linkage
Hiv testing
Hiv care referral
Linkage to care
Hiv-infected adolescents
Adolescent medicine clinics
+22 more
Journal: Sexual Health
• June-2015
Background: Relative to women who engage in sex with exclusively men or women, women who have sex with women and men (WSWM) are more likely to report a history of sexually transmissible infections. Kn...
Anal sex
Bisexual
Condom use
Group sex
Mixed-methods
Threesome
Timeline follow-back methods
Bisexual women
Women who have sex with women and men (wswm)
Sexual behaviors
+23 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• June-2013
Introduction
Numerous factors may affect men's sexual experiences, including their health status, past trauma or abuse, medication use, relationships, mood, anxiety, and body image. Little research h...
Genital self‐image
Male sexual function
Penis
Genital self-image
Penis size
Erectile function
Male genital self-image scale
Mgsis
International index of erectile function
Sexual health
+13 more
“Youth friendly” clinics: Considerations for linking and engaging HIV-infected adolescents into care
Journal: AIDS Care
• June-2013
Linkage and engagement in care are critical corollaries to the health of HIV-infected adolescents. The adolescent HIV epidemic and adolescents' unique barriers to care necessitates innovation in the p...
Youth friendly clinics
Hiv care
Adolescent hiv
Hiv-infected adolescents
Care engagement
Hiv clinics
Adolescent health
Hiv care retention
Youth health services
Clinic design
+12 more
Journal: AIDS Care
• June-2013
Linkage to care is a critical corollary to expanded HIV testing, but many adolescents are not successfully linked to care, in part due to fragmented care systems. Through a collaboration of the Nation...
Hiv-positive adolescents
Linkage to care
Structural barriers
Healthcare access
Adolescent trials network
Hiv care
Youth-friendly clinics
Healthcare policy
Transportation
Developmental needs
+10 more
Journal: Maternal and Child Health Journal
• June-2012
Despite recommendations in the U.S. for routine HPV vaccination of adolescent girls since 2006, rates of vaccination continue to be low. This study reports vaccination uptake, factors associated with...
Hpv
Hpv vaccination
Vaccination rates
Adolescent health
Adolescent girls
Maternal influence
Socioeconomic factors
Demographic disparities
Vaccine uptake
Public health
+9 more
Journal: Clinical Pediatrics
• June-2012
Introduction. The aims of this qualitative study were to explore (a) the factors influencing mothers’ decisions to vaccinate 11- to 12-year-old daughters against human papillomavirus (HPV) and (b) the...
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Hpv vaccination
Decision-making
Adolescent girls
Mothers' perspectives
Vaccine acceptance
Parental influence
Pediatric healthcare
Health communication
Vaccine hesitancy
+14 more
Journal: BMC Medical Research Methodology
• June-2012
Background
Self-reports of sensitive, socially stigmatized or illegal behavior are common in STI/HIV research, but can raise challenges in terms of data reliability and validity. The use of electroni...
Sexual risk behavior
Bacterial vaginosis
Diary entry
Ecological momentary assessment
Connectivity issue
Sti research
Hiv prevention
Electronic diaries
Mobile health
Self-reporting
+20 more
Journal: AIDS Education and Prevention
• June-2012
Previous research suggests that bisexual men face unique health concerns in comparison to their exclusively homosexual and heterosexual counterparts. However, little is known about behaviorally bisexu...
Privacy
Trust
Health services
Behaviorally bisexual men
Bisexuality
Men who have sex with both men and women (msmw)
Sexual health
Healthcare access
Public health
Lgbtq+ health
+22 more
Journal: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
• June-2012
The proposed changes to the Common Rule, described in the recent Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), come more than 20 years after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services adopted...
Common rule
Human subjects research
Research ethics
Institutional review board (irb)
U.s. department of health and human services
Advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (anprm)
Research regulation
Ethical guidelines
Clinical research
Collaborative research
+38 more
Journal: Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
• June-2010
An understanding of why parents provide consent for adolescent participation in research on sensitive topics can inform and improve the ethical conduct and review of such research. As part of a longit...
Bioethics
Adolescent health
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Parental consent
Qualitative research
Research ethics
Adolescent participation
Sensitive research topics
Parental decision-making
Sexual health education
+26 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• June-2007
Purpose
To explore use of an interactive health communication tool- “Computer Assessment and Risk Reduction Education (CARE) for STIs/HIV.”
Methods
This was a mixed method study utilizing participa...
Hiv
Sexually transmitted disease
Sexually transmitted infection
Behavior
Risk reduction
Computer
Qualitative research
Digital health
Health communication
Interactive tools
+28 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• June-2006
Objective: To assess the relation between health literacy and receipt of a screening test for gonorrhoea in the past year.
Methods: Study design was multisite, cross sectional survey of subjects en...
Health literacy
Gonorrhea screening
Std testing
Literacy and healthcare access
Sexual health
Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (realm)
Gonorrhea care
Public health
Health education
Healthcare disparities
+12 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• June-2006
Objectives To determine the 3-month incidence of unwanted sex and to examine relationship factors and health-risk behaviors associated with incident unwanted sex.
Design Data collected from face-...
Unwanted sex
Adolescent relationships
Sexual coercion
Sexual health
Relationship dynamics
Health-risk behaviors
Teen pregnancy
Sexually transmitted infections
Adolescent women
Sexual consent
+20 more
Journal: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• June-2002
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections that are diagnosed during the postpartum period (defined as the 3 months after delive...
Postpartum
Sexually transmitted infection
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
Postpartum infections
Chlamydia trachomatis (ct)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (ng)
Postpartum sti screening
Maternal health
Sti testing after delivery
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• June-1999
Purpose: To investigate the comparability of health behavior data obtained from adolescents via notebook computer versus those obtained via written questionnaire.
Methods: We interviewed adolescent p...
Computer-assisted survey
Written questionnaire
Health behavior
Adolescents
Substance use
Gender differences
Computer-assisted self-interview (casi)
Self-administered questionnaire (saq)
Alcohol use
Marijuana use
+17 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• June-1997
Purpose:
The objective of this research is to describe aspects of the organization of adolescent sexual behavior in order to understand factors associated with risk for sexually transmitted diseases...
Adolescents
Sexual behavior
Seasonality
Temporal patterns
Sexually transmitted diseases
Std risk
Coital events
Condom use
Partner change
Alcohol use
+31 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• June-1996
Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to determine psychosocial and behavioral factors that are associated with variation in contraceptive use among adolescents. Because regular use of contraception...
Contraception
Psychosocial conventionality
Health orientation
Adolescence
Problem-behavior
Theory
Problem-behavior theory
Contraceptive use
Adolescent health
Sexual behavior
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• July-2019
Background
Rectal infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is frequent in women who deny receptive anal sex and is thought to arise from autoinoculation of the rectum from vaginal secretions. An al...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Rectal chlamydia
Oral transmission of stis
Rectal infection in heterosexual men
Mycoplasma genitalium
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Cunnilingus and stis
Gastrointestinal tract infection
Autoinoculation hypothesis
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-2019
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to characterize the composition of vaginal bacterial communities in a cohort of black adolescent women and to determine how the species composition of these comm...
Vaginal glycogen
Vaginal microbiome
Lactobacillus dominance
Black adolescent women
Vaginal bacterial communities
Estradiol and microbiome
Psychosocial stress and microbiome
16s rrna sequencing
Vaginal health
Vaginal community composition
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-2017
Adolescent-physician communication about sexual behaviors, sexuality, and protective behaviors is vital for the support of sexual minorities and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and u...
Adolescent health
Physician-patient communication
Sexual health
Sexual behaviors
Sexuality
Sexual orientation
Sexual attractions
Protective behaviors
Contraceptive use
Sti prevention
+17 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-2015
Purpose
The Adolescent Medicine Trials Network Protocol 113 (ATN113) is an open-label, multisite demonstration project and Phase II safety study of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) preexposure prop...
Adolescent medicine
Self-consent
Biomedical research
Hiv prevention
Preexposure prophylaxis
High-risk adolescents
Institutional review boards
Ethics in research
Informed consent by minors
Research ethics
+20 more
Journal: Hormones and Behavior
• July-2013
This article is part of a Special Issue “Puberty and Adolescence”.
Sexuality emerges as a major developmental element of puberty and the adolescent years that follow. However, connecting the sexualit...
Puberty
Adolescent sexuality
Sexual development
Sexual desire
Sexual arousal
Sexual behaviors
Sexual function
Pubertal changes
Adolescent health
Psychosexual development
+11 more
Journal: Psycho-Oncology
• July-2011
Objective: To examine adolescent and young adult (AYA) testicular cancer survivors' subjective understanding of the impact of cancer in adolescence and young adulthood, with a particular emphasis on r...
Testicular cancer
Adolescent and young adult (aya) cancer survivors
Masculinity and cancer
Self-image and cancer
Romantic relationships
Sexual relationships
Cancer and sexuality
Cancer disclosure
Cancer and self-perception
Oncology and young adults
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Religion and Health
• July-2011
The impact of religiosity in adolescent romantic partnerships on sexual behavior was assessed. Data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health reciprocated couples databas...
Sexual behavior
Romantic couples
Religion
Adolescence
Religiosity
Adolescent romantic relationships
Romantic partnerships
National longitudinal study
Adolescent health
Relationship dynamics
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-2010
Context
First coitus is considered a major transitional event imbued with cultural relevance. Research has focused on classifying women as virgins, with primary interest in pregnancy and sexually tra...
Sexual behavior
Sexual health
Sexual initiation
Contraception
First coitus
Young women
Virginity
Emotional correlates
Sexual interest
Love
+19 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• July-2009
Introduction
Although vibrators are commonly recommended by clinicians as adjunct to treatment for female sexual dysfunction, and for sexual enhancement, little is known about their prevalence or cor...
Vibrator
Female sexual function
Masturbation
Quality of life
Orgasm
Sex toy
Sexual enhancement
Sexual health
Sexual dysfunction
Partnered sex
+24 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• July-2009
Introduction
While vibrating products have been recommended by clinicians for the treatment of male sexual dysfunctions, knowledge is lacking with regard to the prevalence of vibrator use among men i...
Vibrator
Sexual function
Men
Quality of life
Vibrator use
Male sexuality
Erectile function
Orgasmic function
Intercourse satisfaction
Sexual desire
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-2009
Purpose
To examine associations between depressive symptoms and dyad-level sexual risk behavior in young heterosexual dyads with sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Methods
Chlamydia-positive 14–...
Depressive symptoms
Unsafe sex
Sexual partners
Dyad
Chlamydia
Sti risk
Heterosexual dyads
Young adults
Sexual risk behavior
Partner age difference
+9 more
Journal: American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
• July-2007
Problem The resistance and/or susceptibility to infections can be influenced by patterns of immunomodulators. Based on this and the high rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in adolescents,...
Adolescent females
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Vaginal immunity
Hormonal contraception
Bacterial vaginosis (bv)
Immunomodulators
Proinflammatory cytokines
Vaginal health
Adolescent sexual health
Sti susceptibility
+20 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• July-2006
Objectives:
We conducted this study to examine the incidence, prevalence, and risk factors for herpes simplex virus (HSV) 1 and HSV 2 infection in a cohort of young women who were closely followed f...
Herpes simplex virus (hsv)
Hsv-1
Hsv-2
Adolescent health
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Viral shedding
Hsv seroprevalence
Hsv incidence
Hsv transmission
Sexual behavior
+37 more
Journal: Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• July-2005
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in both men and women. Prevalence rates are the highest for adolescents. Despite the high prevalence rates, sequelae of genit...
Hpv infection
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Adolescents
Natural history
Viral typing
Sexually transmitted disease (std)
Genital warts
Dysplasia
Cancer
Hpv prevalence
+26 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• July-1997
Objective:
To evaluate the potential causal relationship between alcohol and drug use and behavior that increases the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
Study Design:
Longitudinal study con...
Sex under the influence
Adolescent sexual behavior
Substance use and sex
Alcohol and sexual risk
Drug use and sexual behavior
Condom use
Sexually transmitted diseases (std) risk
Adolescent women
Diary study
Coital events
+9 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• July-1993
We evaluated the urinary leukocyte esterase (LE) dipstick as a predictor of a positive urethral culture for Neisseria gonorrhoeae andlor Chlamydia trachomatis in adolescent and young adult males. Sexu...
Urethritis screening
Leukocyte esterase dipstick
Sexually transmitted infections
Gonorrhea detection
Chlamydia screening
Asymptomatic infection
Male sexual health
Urinary tract infections
Noninvasive std testing
Adolescent health
+29 more
Journal: Chest
• July-1987
To investigate the effects of intentional hydrocarbon inhalation on lung function, a preliminary study involving ten spray paint abusers was conducted. Mean duration of the inhalation was 34.9 months;...
Pulmonary function
Spray paint inhalation
Hydrocarbon inhalation
Lung function
Pulmonary function testing (pft)
Airway resistance
Airway conductance
Obstructive ventilatory pattern
Residual volume
Exercise provocation
+13 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• July 2017
Importance Youths aged 13 to 24 years old living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are less likely than adults to receive the health and prevention benefits of HIV treatments, with only a small...
Hiv/aids strategy
Youth hiv care
Adolescent health
Hiv continuum of care
Viral suppression
Hiv prevention
National hiv/aids strategy
Youth-friendly services
Cross-agency collaboration
Community mobilization
+17 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• January-2025
Background
We performed a study to better characterize the natural history of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a cohort of closely followed adolescent women.
Methods
A cohort of 60...
Adolescent
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Genital infection
High-risk hpv
Low-risk hpv
Cervical dysplasia
Hpv persistence
Hpv prevalence
Oncogenic hpv
Non-oncogenic hpv
+10 more
Journal: International Journal of Sexual Health
• January-2021
This article provides technical guidance on the content, meaning, and application of the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) Declaration on Sexual Pleasure to various stakeholders and practitione...
Pleasure
Sexual attitudes
and behaviors
Sexual
health promotion
Sexual
politics
Sexual rights
Sexual
satisfaction
Sexuality
education
Sexuality
Sexual attitudes and behaviors
Sexual health promotion
+24 more
Journal: Health & Justice
• January-2021
Background
Individuals with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders often rapidly cycle through the justice system with multiple arrests. Therefore, is it imperative to examine the pr...
Mental health
Substance use disorder
Repeat arrest
Justice-involved individuals
Behavioral health
Criminal justice
Co-occurring disorders
Recidivism
Intervention strategies
Arrest patterns
+20 more
Journal: Nursing Research
• January-2021
Background
Dysmenorrhea is a prevalent pain condition among women and a risk factor for other chronic pain conditions. Individuals vary in dysmenorrhea pain severity, the number of painful sites, an...
Chronic pain
Dysmenorrhea
Menstruation
Pelvic pain
Phenotype
Symptom-based phenotypes
Pain severity
Abdominal cramps
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Comorbid conditions
+16 more
Journal: Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
• January-2019
Using data from the 2014 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, a probability survey of Americans aged 14+, we assessed the prevalence and correlates of kissing, cuddling, and massage during 1...
Affectionate touch
Non-penetrative intimacy
Physical affection
Sexual satisfaction
Emotional intimacy
Foreplay
Sensual touch
Romantic behaviors
Relationship dynamics
Partner bonding
+12 more
Journal: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
• January-2018
Background:
Beneficial HIV treatment outcomes require success at multiple steps along the HIV Continuum of Care. Youth living with HIV are a key population, and sites in the Adolescent Medicine Tria...
Youth living with hiv
Hiv continuum of care
Hiv treatment
Viral load suppression
Engagement in care
Antiretroviral therapy
Adolescent medicine
Hiv/aids interventions
Longitudinal study
Health disparities
+16 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• January-2018
Bisexual parents have been notably absent from prior research on parenting, despite comprising the largest proportion of parents among “lesbian, gay, and bisexual” (LGB) individuals. Indeed, recent na...
Bisexual
Parenting
Pregnancy intention
Assisted reproductive technology (art)
Art
Contraception
Bisexual parents
Lgbtq+ parenting
Family planning
Contraception use
+22 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• January-2016
With this observation, Blunt et al. [1] (this issue) contribute to a more refined, clinically relevant research agenda for adolescents' sexual well-being. I shall make other comments later about the r...
Adolescent sexual well-being
Sexual health
Adolescent development
Sexuality
Healthy sex
Sexual risk
Personal security
Attachment
Self-determination
Respect
+14 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• January-2015
Background
Individuals entering jails have high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI), but there are few data on STI in the postincarceration period. This study aimed to describe rates of c...
Sexually transmitted infections
Jail
Incarceration
Epidemiology
Journal: American Journal of Sexuality Education
• January-2015
Youth development professionals (YDPs) working at community-based organizations are in a unique position to interact with the adolescents because they are neither parents/guardians nor teachers. The o...
Siecus
Adolescents
Conversations
Sexual health
Sexuality
Youth development professionals
Comprehensive sexuality education
Adolescent health
Community-based organizations
Youth counseling
+21 more
Journal: Genome Biology
• January-2013
Background
Characterizing the biogeography of the microbiome of healthy humans is essential for understanding microbial associated diseases. Previous studies mainly focused on a single body habitat f...
Temporal stability
Human microbiome
Biogeography
Microbial diversity
16s rrna sequencing
Oral microbiota
Skin microbiota
Vaginal microbiota
Alpha diversity
Microbial stability
+15 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• January-2013
Purpose
To determine whether depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) use is associated with an increased risk of acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in a cohort of healthy adolesce...
Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (dmpa)
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Adolescent women
Contraceptive use
Sti risk factors
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Sexual behavior
Adolescent sexual health
+18 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• January-2012
Objectives To (1) examine perceptions of risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), (2) examine perceived need for safer sexual behaviors, and (3) determine f...
Adolescent perceptions
Hpv vaccination
Sexual risk perception
Safer sexual behaviors
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Hpv knowledge
Maternal communication
Risk awareness
Adolescent health
Sexual behavior changes
+6 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• January-2012
Purpose
The use of self-report of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination status has several implications for clinical care and research. Reports of HPV vaccination history of adolescent girls (ages:...
Hpv
Vaccine
Adolescents
Self-report
Vaccination recall
Parental recall
Immunization coverage
Hpv awareness
Public health
Vaccination hesitancy
+16 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• January-2011
Introduction
Over the past two decades, an expanding body of research has examined women’s and men’s genital self‐image. Support for the reliability and validity of the 7‐item Female Genital Self‐Ima...
Female genital self-image
Fgsis
Fgsis-4
Female sexual function
Genital self-examination
Female sexuality
Sexual health
Vaginal health
Vulva perception
Sexual behavior
+11 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• January-2011
Introduction
Although lubricant use is commonly recommended to women for solo and partnered sexual activities, little is known about women’s use of lubricant or their relationship to sexual pleasure...
Lubricant
Sexual pleasure
Sexual satisfaction
Sexual function
Dyspareunia
Genital
Lubricant use
Women's sexual health
Genital symptoms
Water-based lubricants
+12 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• January-2011
Purpose
Little is known about how adolescent sexual behaviors develop and the influence of personal or perceived social attitudes. We sought to describe how personal, perceived peer, and perceived fa...
Adolescents
Adolescent sexual behavior
Attitudes
Peer influence
Family influence
Abstinence
Sexual decision-making
Risk behavior
Perceived social norms
Sexual development
+34 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• January-2010
BackgroundRepeated Chlamydia trachomatis infections are common among young sexually active women. The relative frequency of reinfection and antibiotic treatment failure is undefined
MethodsAdolesce...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Repeated infections
Reinfection
Antibiotic treatment failure
Adolescent sexual health
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Partner notification
Male screening
Antibiotic effectiveness
Genotype determination
+15 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• January-2010
This study describes associations of partner‐specific relationship characteristics with consistent condom use among 297 young people (ages 13–24) with sexually transmitted diseases (STD). Relationship...
Condom use
Relationship characteristics
Sexually transmitted diseases (std)
Young people
Partner-specific factors
Relationship quality
Emotional reasons for sex
Coital frequency
New sexual partner
Established partner
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
• January-2010
Little is known about women's use of vibrators within sexual partnerships. Data were collected from a population-based, cross-sectional survey of 2056 women aged 18–60 years in the United States. Part...
Women's vibrator use
Sexual partnerships
Female sexual function
Sexual satisfaction
Vibrator use in relationships
Partnered intimacy
Female sexuality
Heterosexual women
Lesbian women
Bisexual women
+9 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• January-2010
Three general classes of clinic‐based programs to increase responsible sexual behavior are considered: (a) clinic‐based educational/counseling programs, (b) school clinic‐based condom distribution pro...
Sexual health
Responsible sexual behavior
Clinic-based programs
Sexual education
Counseling interventions
Condom distribution
Std screening
Hiv prevention
Adolescent health
Public health
+23 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• January-2003
Background
Repeated infection with Chlamydia trachomatis increases the risk for serious sequelae: pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, infertility, and chronic pelvic pain. A substantial...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Patient-delivered partner treatment (pdpt)
Azithromycin
Repeated infection
Sti prevention
Public health
Sexual health
Partner notification
Randomized controlled trial
Women's health
+6 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• January-2000
REALISTIC POSSIBILITIES FOR vaccines against sexually transmitted organisms are growing rapidly. Despite slow progress and disappointments, the remarkable growth in the understanding of the biology of...
Sti vaccines
Sexually transmitted infections
Hepatitis b vaccine
Neisseria gonorrhea
Chlamydia trachomatis
Herpes simplex virus (hsv)
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Hiv vaccine
Vaccine development
Disease prevention
+41 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• January-1999
Objective:
To identify factors associated with subsequent sexually transmitted infection (STI) (within 1 year of initial infection) due toChlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeaeorTrichomonas va...
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Adolescent sexual health
Sti reinfection
Condom use
Multiple sex partners
Sti prevention
Gonorrhea
+9 more
Journal: Journal of Research on Adolescence
• January-1995
Longitudinal data were used to examine the relationship of psychosocial unconventionality—rejection of societal norms and a propensity to engage in nonconforming behavior—to early initiation of sexual...
Early sexual initiation
Psychosocial unconventionality
Problem-behavior theory
Adolescents
Longitudinal study
Sexual behavior
Social norms
Nonconforming behavior
White
Hispanic
+6 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health Care
• January-1988
The values and experience of physicians as adolescents can effect their care of adolescent patients. Eighty residents were studied using extensive personal data gathered from a structured interview, a...
Physicians’ values
Experience
Adolescent health care
Patient care
Medical training
Clinical skills
Risk-taking
Adolescent medicine
Physician attitudes
Healthcare decision-making
+39 more
Journal: Maternal and Child Health Journal
• January 2018
Background HIV-positive women in the United States can have healthy pregnancies and avoid transmitting HIV to their children. Yet, little is known about the extent to which HIV care providers’ reprodu...
Hiv
Young women
Reproductive health
Pregnancy
Hiv care providers
Reproductive desires
Contraception
Pregnancy intentions
Mixed methods analysis
Adolescent medicine
+39 more
Journal: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
• January 2014
This chapter is organized around the question “How do adolescents learn to have healthy sex?” The chapter assumes that sexual learning derives from a broad range of both informal and formal sources th...
Sexual learning
Healthy adolescent sex
Sexual experience
Adolescent sexuality
Sexual health
Neurocognitive brain systems
Sexual motivation
Self-regulation
Sexual functioning
Adolescent sexual development
+8 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• February-2022
Using data from a 2014 U.S. nationally representative probability survey and a 2014 content analysis of 2562 male–female videos from two popular pornographic websites, this study aimed to: (1) compare...
Pornography
Sexual behaviors
Condom use
Orgasm
Real-life sex
Porn vs. reality
Sexual practices
Anal intercourse
Oral sex
Fellatio
+24 more
Journal: Journal of General Internal Medicine
• February-2022
Background
Transgender individuals are less likely to have had a primary care visit in the last year than cisgender individuals. While the importance of multidisciplinary clinics for transgender care...
Transgender healthcare
Primary care access
Transgender patient experiences
Gender-affirming care
Comprehensive transgender clinics
Multidisciplinary transgender care
Healthcare barriers for transgender individuals
Transgender patient-provider relationships
Inclusive healthcare
Transgender health equity
+18 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• February-2022
Sexual modesty is the social, cultural, interpersonal, and psychological systems – defined by the tenets of Script Theory – that regulate individuals’ sexual expression and experience at the social, l...
Sexual modesty
Sexual expression
Sexual experience
Script theory
Social norms
Cultural influences
Interpersonal boundaries
Psychological factors
Sexual communication
Sexual display
+35 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• February-2021
We analyzed cross-sectional data collected from a U.S. nationally representative survey of individuals ages 14–24 years old on what sources of information from the past year they considered to be the...
Pornography
Sexuality
Sex education
Adolescents
Young adults
Sexual development
Sexually explicit media
U.s. adolescents
Pornography as information source
Sexual health
+15 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• February-2016
Study Objective
To assess condom use as a function of number of coital events in newly formed sexual relationships.
Methods
Participants who reported at least one new partner during the 12-week...
Condom use
Coital events
Relationship satisfaction
Sexual satisfaction
New relationships
Sexual behavior
Safe sex
Sti prevention
Contraception
Sexual health
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Research on Adolescence
• February-2016
Despite high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rates among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM), there are limited data about condom use during first same-sex (FSS). This study sought to und...
Adolescents
Black men who have sex with men (bmsm)
First sex
Condoms
Condom use
Condom nonuse
Hiv prevention
Sti awareness
Sexual health
Safe sex practices
+32 more
Journal: Journal of Homosexuality
• February-2016
We sought to determine, in a sample of 2,813 HIV seronegative young men who had sex with other men age 18–24, whether physical satisfaction would explain emotional satisfaction during first anal inter...
Emotional satisfaction
First anal intercourse
Sexual development
Young men who have sex with men (ymsm)
Hiv prevention
Sexual behavior
Physical satisfaction
Partner type
Sexual health
Lgbtq+ health
+15 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• February-2015
Sexually explicit material (SEM) (including Internet, video, and print) may play a key role in the lives of Black same-sex sexually active youth by providing the only information to learn about sexual...
Sexually explicit material
Gay men
Sexual orientation
Sexual identity
Adolescents
Black same-sex attracted youth
Sexual development
Same-gender sex
Sexual education
Sexual behaviors
+19 more
Journal: Journal of the International AIDS Society
• February-2015
Introduction
HIV testing is the portal to serostatus knowledge that can empower linkage to care for HIV treatment and HIV prevention. However, young people's access to HIV testing is uneven worldwide...
Hiv testing
Youth and hiv
Hiv prevention
Hiv care
Linkage to services
Adolescent health
Young people and hiv
Hiv testing barriers
Hiv testing access
Hiv awareness
+21 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• February-2014
Importance Physicians may be important sources of sexuality information and preventive services, and one-on-one confidential time during health maintenance visits is recommended to allow discussions...
Sexuality talk
Adolescent health
Physician-adolescent communication
Sexual development
Preventive services
Health maintenance visits
Sexual behavior
Risk reduction
Confidentiality discussion
Sexual health
+21 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• February-2014
Importance Physicians may be important sources of sexuality information and preventive services, and one-on-one confidential time during health maintenance visits is recommended to allow discussions...
Sexuality talk
Adolescent health
Physician-adolescent communication
Sexual development
Preventive services
Health maintenance visits
Sexual behavior
Risk reduction
Confidentiality discussion
Sexual health
+21 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• February-2014
Objectives The objective of the study was to determine the potential of human papillomavirus (HPV) transmission via shared sex toys, and determine whether cleaning practices implemented by the study p...
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Vaginal sex toys
Sex toy cleaning
Hpv transmission
Women who have sex with women and men
Hpv dna
Sexual health
Hpv prevention
Sex toy hygiene
Genital hpv
+5 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• February-2014
Objectives Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are common in adolescent women, while the rare cancerous sequelae of HPV infections do not generally occur until the 4th or 5th decades of life. This p...
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Adolescents
Hpv dna detection
Seroprevalence
Antibodies
Hpv vaccination
High-risk hpv
Low-risk hpv
Quadrivalent vaccine
Cervical cancer
+20 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• February-2013
Purpose
Sexual health refers a state of lifespan well-being related to sexuality. Among young people, sexual health has multiple dimensions, including the positive developmental contributions of sexu...
Sexual health
Adolescent sexuality
Sexual behavior
Prevention behavior
Sti prevention
Pregnancy prevention
Condom use
Hormonal contraception
Sexual abstinence
Non-coital sex
+20 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• February-2013
Introduction
Exogenous lubricant use in the United States is common among women; however, there is little empirical research describing women's perceptions of lubricants, lubricant use, and vaginal w...
Lubricant
Vaginal lubrication
Vaginal perception
Sexual enhancement
Sexual pleasure
Vaginal wetness
Female sexual function
Sexual health
Sexual behavior
Women's sexuality
+20 more
Journal: Pediatrics
• February-2011
OBJECTIVE:
We assessed differences in chlamydia screening rates according to race/ethnicity, insurance status, age, and previous sexually transmitted infection (STI) or pregnancy.
METHODS:
A retr...
Chlamydia
Sti screening
Sexual health
Ethnic disparities
Health disparities
Insurance coverage
Adolescent health
Reproductive health
Racial disparities
Healthcare access
+57 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• February-2009
Currently in clinical trials, microbicides have historically been promoted as a woman-controlled (although more recently woman initiated) method of sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention. The...
Vaginal microbicide
Sti prevention
Sexual health
Women-controlled methods
Sexual pleasure
Microbicide acceptability
Reproductive health
Contraceptive side effects
Vaginal moisturizer
Sexual behavior
+20 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• February-2009
Currently in clinical trials, vaginal microbicides are proposed as a female-initiated method of sexually transmitted infection prevention. Much of microbicide acceptability research has been conducted...
Microbicides
Women
Relationships
Gender
Hiv
Sti
Qualitative research
Women’s health
Gender dynamics
Hiv prevention
+31 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• February-2008
Purpose
Little is known about factors associated with the day-to-day selection and orchestration of sexual repertoire among adolescent women. Analyzing differences in adolescent women’s sexual activi...
Adolescents
Sexual repertoire
Coital activity
Noncoital activity
Sexual behavior
Adolescent sexuality
Sexual decision making
Sexual development
Sexually transmitted infection (sti) prevention
Pregnancy prevention
+17 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• February-2007
Abstract
Study Objective
To assess the degree to which adolescents/young adults are satisfied in their current sexual relationships and to evaluate intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors of sexu...
Sexual satisfaction
Adolescent sexuality
Young adult relationships
Sexual behavior
Sexual health
Predictors of sexual satisfaction
Romantic relationships
Mental health and sexuality
Condom use
Sexual frequency
+20 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• February-2007
Abstract
Study Objective
To assess the degree to which adolescents/young adults are satisfied in their current sexual relationships and to evaluate intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors of sexu...
Sexual satisfaction
Adolescent sexuality
Young adult relationships
Sexual behavior
Sexual health
Predictors of sexual satisfaction
Romantic relationships
Mental health and sexuality
Condom use
Sexual frequency
+20 more
Journal: JAMA Pediatrics
• February-2006
Objective To examine the association of potentially modifiable factors such as condom use, sexual behaviors, and concurrent sexually transmitted infections with duration of genital human papillomavir...
Hpv infection
Adolescent women
Condom use
Sexual behaviors
Sexually transmitted infections
Hpv clearance
Oncogenic hpv
Multiple sexual partners
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Chlamydia trachomatis
+14 more
Journal: BMC Infectious Diseases
• February-2004
Background
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a polymicrobial syndrome characterized by a change in vaginal flora away from predominantly Lactobacillus species. The cause of BV is unknown, but the condition...
Bacterial vaginosis (bv)
Atopobium vaginae
Vaginal flora
Metronidazole resistance
Anaerobic bacteria
16s rrna gene sequencing
Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (dgge)
Lactobacillus
Polymicrobial syndrome
Vaginal microbiome
+10 more
Journal: American Journal of Public Health
• February-2002
Objectives. This study sought to describe condom use over time in new and established adolescent relationships.
Methods. The outcome variable was time (in days) until first unprotected coital event...
Condom use
Adolescent sexual relationships
Sexual health
Std prevention
Relationship duration
New relationships
Established relationships
Unprotected coital events
Kaplan-meier survival curves
Cox proportional hazards models
+10 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• February-2001
Background
Sequelae of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women are more strongly linked to repeat infections than to initial ones, and persistent or subsequent infections foster continued t...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Persistent infection
Recurrent infection
Young women
Multicenter cohort study
Sexually transmitted disease (std)
Reinfection
Ligase chain reaction (lcr)
Adolescent medicine
Reproductive health
+25 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
• February-1999
Objective: To evaluate the associations of health beliefs and health behaviors with attitudes about HIV
immunization in a sample of adolescent clinic patients.
Method: Written self-report questionna...
Hiv
Aids
Vaccination
Health beliefs
Health behaviors
Adolescents
Hiv immunization
Vaccine acceptability
Public health
Risk perception
+16 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• February-1998
Background and Objectives:
The development of a vaccine to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a highly desirable goal. However, there may be a number of psychosocial barriers to...
Hiv vaccine
Vaccine acceptability
Health beliefs
Vaccine hesitancy
Hiv prevention
Immunization attitudes
Public health
Aids vaccine
Vaccine efficacy
Perceived susceptibility
+16 more
Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice
• December-2022
Background
Firearm violence is a public health crisis in the US. Beyond the survivor, firearm violence also impacts family members and communities of firearm violence survivors. Despite the known hea...
Nonfatal shootings
Firearm violence
Mental health outcomes
Secondary survivors
Shooting survivors
Family members
Public health
Trauma-informed care
Ptsd
Anxiety
+21 more
Journal: Health Psychology
• December-2021
Objective: Interventions to promote evidence-based practices are particularly needed for paraprofessional staff working with minority youth with HIV who have higher rates of HIV infection but lower ra...
Motivational interviewing
Community health workers
Translation
Hiv
Adolescents
Tailored motivational interviewing
Youth living with hiv
Behavioral intervention
Orbit model
Skills acquisition
+24 more
Journal: Injury Epidemiology
• December-2020
Background
Homicide is a widely acknowledged public health problem in the United States. The majority of homicides are committed with a firearm and have long-term health consequences for family membe...
Homicides
Urban violence
Epidemiology
Crime clearance rates
Homicide clearance
Firearm violence
Community disorder
Neighborhood crime
Police interactions
Racial disparities
+14 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• December-2017
Purpose
There is a persistent HIV epidemic among sexual and gender minority adolescents in the U.S. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an efficacious prevention strategy, but not yet approved fo...
Hiv
Lgbtq
Prevention
Pre-exposure
Prophylaxis
Biomedical
Ethics
Consent
Minors
Young
+90 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• December-2016
Previous studies have demonstrated that Neisseria gonorrhoeae sialylates the terminal N-acetyllactosamine present on its lipooligosaccharide (LOS) by acquiring CMP-N-acetyl-5-neuraminic acid upon ente...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Sialidase
N-acetyllactosamine
Cervicovaginal secretions
Sialyltransferase
Lipooligosacharide
Gonorrhea
Cervicovaginal microbiome
Lipooligosaccharide
Desialylation
+22 more
Journal: LGBT Health
• December-2014
Purpose: Physicians are encouraged to use inclusive language regarding sexuality in order to help all adolescent patients feel accepted. Non-inclusive language by physicians may influence relationship...
Adolescents
Annual visits
Preventive health visits
Sexuality
Inclusive language
Sexual orientation
Adolescent healthcare
Physician-patient communication
Lgbtq+ inclusive care
Teen sexuality discussions
+22 more
Journal: AIDS and Behavior
• December-2014
Individual, social, and structural factors affecting HIV risk behaviors among female sex workers (FSWs) are difficult to assess using retrospective surveys methods. To test the feasibility and accepta...
Female sex workers
Daily diaries
Hiv risk behavior
Feasibility
Sexual events
Female sex workers fsws
Cell phone diaries
Acceptability
Digital diaries
Mood tracking
+12 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• December-2012
Purpose
To understand linkage to care practices at sites providing clinical services to newly diagnosed HIV-positive adolescents.
Methods
Qualitative analysis of detailed interviews conducted with...
Hiv
Linkage to care
Adolescents
Adolescent medicine
Hiv-positive youth
Specialty care
Health services
Hiv testing
Stigma
Confidentiality
+21 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• December-2012
Background. Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is believed to be primarily sexually transmitted. Few studies have documented the detection of HPV in the vagina before first vaginal intercour...
Human papillomavirus
Sexual behaviors
Adolescents
Hpv transmission
Presexual hpv detection
Nonpenetrative sexual activities
Oral-genital contact
Digital-genital contact
Hpv vaccination
Adolescent health
+17 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• December-2011
Objective To assess masturbation prevalence, frequency, and associations with partnered sexual behaviors.
Design Cross-sectional survey.
Setting The United States of America.
Participants Nat...
Masturbation prevalence
Adolescent sexual behavior
Partnered sexual activities
Condom use
Gender differences
Us adolescents
Sexual development
Solo masturbation
Sexual health
Adolescent sexuality
+10 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• December-2011
Research examining the sexual behaviors and experiences of behaviorally bisexual men is limited. Most studies focus primarily on highlighting sexual risk behaviors among groups of “men who have sex wi...
Bisexual
Sexual behavior
Sexual experience
Men who have sex with both men and women (msmw)
Sexual repertoires
Sexual health
Condom use
Vaginal intercourse
Oral sex
Anal sex
+17 more
Journal: Sexuality Research and Social Policy
• December-2011
Despite an increased public and behavioral health emphasis on research which explores the link between individual sexual context and sexual decision making, most studies have yet to adequately explore...
Sexual spaces
Sexual behavior
Early adult women
Sexuality construction
Photo-elicitation interviewing (pei)
Sexual decision making
Sexual privacy
Sexual desire
Contraception use
Condom use
+31 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• December-2010
Background:
Diagnostic chlamydia testing is recommended for all young women demonstrating sexually transmitted infection (STI) symptoms. Differential testing among symptomatic women may contribute t...
Chlamydia testing
Sexually transmitted infection (sti)
Young women
Sti symptoms
Diagnostic testing
Healthcare disparities
Age differences
Racial disparities
Ethnic disparities
Insurance status
+25 more
Time From First Intercourse to First Sexually Transmitted Infection Diagnosis Among Adolescent Women
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• December-2009
Objective To determine the time between first intercourse and first sexually transmitted infection (STI) with Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, or Trichomonas vaginalis and time between r...
Adolescent women
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
First intercourse
Sti diagnosis
Repeated infections
Sti screening
Urban youth
+14 more
Journal: Social Service Review
• December-2009
The sexual behavior of children is understudied and not well understood. Applying a social constructionist perspective to childhood sexual behavior, the present study investigates familial factors tha...
Childhood sexual behavior
Family context
Social constructionism
Preadolescent development
African american families
Sexual beliefs
Family structure
Primary caregivers
Child development
Sexual customs
+39 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• December-2007
Menstruation is a normal, developmental event anchored in contradictory value systems. Although it demarcates a transition to womanhood, it is often associated with negative sentiments such as shame,...
Adolescent sexuality
Coitus during menstruation
Sexual behavior during vaginal bleeding
Menstrual health and sexuality
Situational and relational factors
Adolescent romantic relationships
Sexual health education
Contraceptive use
Sti prevention strategies
Menstrual stigma
+51 more
Journal: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
• December-2005
Background: Trichomonas vaginalis infection is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) linked with reproductive health complications. However, few data exist concerning the epidemiologic profile of thi...
Trichomonas vaginalis
Adolescent women
Sexually transmitted infections
Prevalence
Incidence
Natural history
Metronidazole treatment
Reinfection
Vaginal swab
Polymerase chain reaction
+11 more
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
• December-1998
Genital infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis are a serious public health problem in the United States. Chlamydia infections remain the most common treatable sexually transmitted infection (STI), wi...
Adolescent medicine
Infectious diseases
Pediatrics
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Public health
Sti screening
Adolescent females
Pelvic inflammatory disease (pid)
Cost-effective screening
+22 more
Journal: The American Journal of Medicine
• December-1985
Intentional use of gasoline as an intoxicant has been frequently reported in diverse clinical literature. Recent investigations have described a high prevalence of this behavior in certain ethnic grou...
Gasoline sniffing
Substance abuse
Inhalant abuse
Tetraethyl lead
Encephalopathy
Neurotoxicity
Intoxication
Addiction
Chelation therapy
Lead poisoning
+17 more
Journal: Brain and Behavior
• August-2023
Introduction
Being choked/strangled during partnered sex is an emerging sexual behavior, particularly prevalent among young adult women. Using a multiparameter morphometric imaging approach, we aimed...
Cortical thickness
Non-fatal strangulation
Sexual asphyxiation
Sexual choking
Surface morphometry
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• August-2022
Purpose
To determine key elements of a contraception navigator program that provides a personalized approach to overcoming patient-specific barriers by a trained navigator in central Indiana.
Method...
Adolescents
Contraception
Adolescent health services
Access to health care
Human-centered design
Patient engagement
Pregnancy prevention
Barriers to contraception
Contraception navigator
Reproductive health
+49 more
Journal: The Lancet Public Health
• August-2021
Sexual health has provided a guiding framework for addressing sexuality in public health for several decades. Although the WHO definition of sexual health is revolutionary in acknowledging positive se...
Sexual wellbeing
Sexual health
Public health
Sexual justice
Sexual pleasure
Health equity
Sexual fulfillment
Sexual agency
Sexual satisfaction
Relational wellbeing
+15 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• August-2021
Objective To compare the rates of subsequent infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, or Trichomonas vaginalis in a group of high-risk adolescents and young adults.
Methods At...
Subsequent sexually transmitted infections
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Urban adolescents
Young adults
High-risk populations
Sti reinfection
Sexually transmitted diseases
Adolescent health
+11 more
Journal: Preventive Medicine
• August-2021
Nonfatal firearm assault incidents are more prevalent than gun homicides, however, little is understood about nonfatal firearm assault incidents due to a lack of accurate data in the United States. Th...
Nonfatal firearm assault
Firearm violence
Gun injuries
Police data
Clinical records
Data linkage
Firearm-related injury
Gunshot wounds
Crime data
Public health surveillance
+26 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• August-2021
Compared to studies on sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention, sexual pleasure has received limited attention in the adolescent sexual development literature. In the present study, w...
Adolescence
Sexual pleasure
Sexual behavior
Sexual development
Teen intimacy
Partnered sexual experiences
Adolescent sexual health
Emotional intimacy
Sexual desire
Youth sexual experiences
+14 more
Journal: International Journal of Sexual Health
• August-2019
Much work on sexual health has emphasized adverse outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections/HIV, unintended pregnancy, and sexual violence. Although these objectives are of continued importance...
Sexual pleasure
Sexual health
Sexual rights
Sexual wellbeing
Sexual politics
Health promotion
Public health
Reproductive health
Sexuality policy
Pleasure-centered approach
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• August-2018
Purpose
Youth living with HIV (YLHIV) in the United States (U.S.) account for nearly one-third of new HIV infections and face significant barriers to care engagement; only 25% are virally suppressed....
Healthcare transition
Youth living with hiv
Hiv care continuum
Adolescent hiv
Hiv treatment adherence
Antiretroviral therapy
Viral suppression
Hiv care engagement
Healthcare disparities
Transition to adult care
+58 more
Journal: The Journal of Sex Research
• August-2016
Sexual satisfaction is commonly defined and discussed in physiological terms of arousal and orgasm. Yet this narrow discourse does not accommodate the complex, multidimensional, and interpersonal aspe...
Bisexual women
Sexual satisfaction
Interpersonal dynamics
Emotional attunement
Emotional gratification
Partner gratification
Sensory gratification
Sexual experience
Relational dynamics
Intimacy
+19 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• August-2015
Objectives Behaviourally bisexual women (women who have sex with women and men (WSWM)) are more likely to report a history of sexually transmitted infections (STI) than women who have sex exclusively...
Sti testing
Self-collected samples
Bisexual women
Women who have sex with women and men (wswm)
Sexual health
Sti screening
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Vaginal self-sampling
+18 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• August-2013
Although frequently cited as being at high risk for HIV/STI transmission, little is known about behaviorally bisexual men’s patterns and experiences of condom use and nonuse with male and female sexua...
Bisexuality
Bisexual men
Sexual behavior
Condom use
Gender
Hiv prevention
Sti transmission
Safe sex
Sexual health
Male partners
+17 more
Journal: Vaccine
• August-2012
Introduction
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trials have demonstrated high efficacy in preventing HPV infections and HPV related disease in females ages 16–26. However, there is no source data to...
Human papillomavirus vaccination
Human papillomavirus infection
Adolescent
Hpv prevention
Vaccine efficacy
Sexual health
Sti prevention
Urban adolescents
Public health
Hpv detection
+21 more
Journal: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
• August-2012
Methods
Participants were 13- to 21-year-old females receiving their first HPV vaccine dose, recruited from an adolescent primary care clinic between June 2008 and June 2010. These data are from th...
Human papillomavirus (hpv)
Hpv infection
Hpv prevalence
Quadrivalent hpv vaccine
Adolescent women
Young women
Sexual health
Cervicovaginal swabs
Hpv-16
Hpv-18
+17 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescence
• August-2011
Developing a sexual self-concept is an important developmental task of adolescence; however, little empirical evidence describes this development, nor how these changes are related to development in s...
Adolescent women
Sexual self-concept
Sexual behavior
Sexual openness
Sexual esteem
Sexual anxiety
Latent growth curve modeling
Adolescent development
Sexual health
Psychological well-being
+7 more
Journal: Culture, Health & Sexuality
• August-2011
Research on behaviourally bisexual Latino men in the USA has not yet examined sexual health issues among men living in diverse areas of the nation, including the Midwest. A community-based participato...
Bisexual
Latino
Men who have sex with both men and women (msmw)
Migration
Usa
Sexual health
Bisexual identity
Latino men
Midwest usa
Community-based research
+14 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• August-2011
Background:
The natural history of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) infections is largely unknown. The objective of the current study was to use sequential weekly vaginal samples and molecular techniques...
Gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Adolescent women
Natural history of infection
Incident infections
Bacterial load
Coinfection
Chlamydia
Longitudinal study
Vaginal swabs
+16 more
Journal: Journal of Medical Virology
• August-2011
Most human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in young women become undetectable by standard assays after a few months. It is possible that many HPV infections do not actually clear, but persist at very...
Hpv 16 persistence
Human papillomavirus
Hpv clearance
Adolescent women
Hpv detection
Low-level hpv
Hpv reappearance
Hpv longitudinal study
Viral persistence
Hpv genotyping
+14 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• August-2011
Study Objective
Although underutilized, the vaginal contraceptive ring has several advantages over other contraceptive methods that could benefit adolescents. We examined factors that may influence w...
Vaginal contraceptive ring
Adolescent contraception
Birth control acceptability
Female reproductive health
Sexual health education
Contraceptive method preferences
Vaginal ring awareness
Contraceptive counseling
Genital comfort
Insertion and removal concerns
+40 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• August-2010
This review presents a summary of existing knowledge regarding the effect of testicular cancer along four broad domains, including romantic and sexual relationships, body image, and fertility. A total...
Testicular cancer
Survivorship
Adolescent and young adult cancer survivors
Romantic relationships
Sexual relationships
Body image
Fertility
Sexual function
Psychological adjustment
Partnered vs. unpartnered survivors
+11 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• August-2009
Study Objective
Contraceptive withdrawal, or coitus interruptus, is a widespread method in adolescents, but factors affecting usage have not been longitudinally investigated. Study objectives were to...
Withdrawal
Contraception
Adolescents
Contraceptive withdrawal
Coitus interruptus
Adolescent contraceptive use
Sexual behavior
Adolescent sexual health
Withdrawal effectiveness
Sti risk
+17 more
Journal: Archives of Sexual Behavior
• August-2008
Mood and sexual interest changes are commonly cited reasons for discontinuing hormonal contraceptives. Data, however, are inconsistent and limited to adult users. We examined associations of hormonal...
Adolescent contraception
Hormonal contraception
Oral contraceptives
Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (dmpa)
Sexual interest
Sexual desire
Mood changes
Positive mood
Negative mood
Contraceptive adherence
+19 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• August-2006
Purpose
Sexual abstinence has become the primary response to adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention. However, most abstinence programs are based on adult ideas of ab...
Sexual abstinence
Adolescence
Decision-making
Qualitative research
Sexual behavior
Adolescent development
Readiness
Rite of passage
Maturity
Relationships
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• August-2005
Purpose
To explore associations of relationship quality, coital frequency, unprotected coitus, and chlamydia infection over time.
Methods
Data came from 142 adolescent females with sexually transmi...
Relationship quality
Adolescents
Chlamydia infection
Condom use
Coital frequency
Unprotected coitus
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Adolescent sexual health
Partner change
Std prevention
+14 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Infections
• August-2002
Objective: To evaluate sexual behaviour (including abstinence), sex partner change, and condom use during the 3 month period following treatment for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trich...
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Adolescents
Post-treatment behaviors
Sexual behavior
Prevention strategies
Condom use
Partner change
Abstinence
Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
+11 more
Journal: Transgender Health
• April-2022
Purpose: Telemedicine holds potential to improve access to gender-affirming care for gender-diverse youth (GDY), but little is known about youth's perspectives regarding its use. The purpose of this s...
Gender-diverse youth
Telemedicine
Gender-affirming care
Covid-19
Healthcare access
Virtual care
Adolescent health
Lgbtq+ health
Medical satisfaction
Online healthcare
+16 more
Journal: The Journal of Pediatrics
• April-2021
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused over 1 000 000 deaths worldwide and over 200 000 deaths in the US to date.1 Most, but not all of the deaths and more severe conseque...
Covid-19
Coronavirus disease 2019
Sars-cov-2
Vaccination
Immunization
Vaccine confidence
Vaccine hesitancy
Public health
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (npis)
Social distancing
+20 more
Journal: Journal of the International AIDS Society
• April-2021
Introduction
There are approximately 1.7 million adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV, ages 10 to 19) globally, including 110,000 in Kenya. While ALHIV experience poor retention in care, limited data e...
Adolescent hiv
Hiv care disengagement
Trauma and hiv
Mental health
Hiv stigma
Retention in hiv care
Psychological trauma
Hiv disclosure
Social support
Antiretroviral adherence
+35 more
Journal: JMIR Research Protocols
• April-2021
Background:
In the United States, adolescents and young adults are disproportionately affected by HIV and have poorer HIV-related health outcomes than adults. Health care transition (HCT) from pediat...
Hiv
Mhealth
Transition to adult care
Young adults
Feasibility studies
Retention in care
Control groups
United states
Telemedicine
Hiv infections
+31 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2020
Purpose
Youth in the child welfare system experience disproportionate rates of negative sexual health outcomes as well as increased engagement in risky sexual behaviors. This study explored the impac...
Sexual identity
Sexual well-being
Sexual health
Child welfare
Foster care
Foster youth
Foster care alumni
Adolescent
Young adult
Adolescent sexual development
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Bisexuality
• April-2019
Research on sexual satisfaction tends to focus mostly on heterosexual women and women in monogamous relationships. Sexual satisfaction among sexual minority women and women who are nonmonogamous or no...
Monogamous
Nonmonogamous
Unpartnered sexual minority
Bisexual women
Sexual minority women
Sexual satisfaction
Non-monogamy
Monogamous relationships
Nonmonogamous relationships
Unpartnered women
+26 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2018
Purpose
Linkage of HIV-negative youth to prevention services is increasingly important with the development of effective pre-exposure prophylaxis that complements behavioral and other prevention-focu...
Hiv prevention
Youth linkage
Prevention services
Barriers
Facilitators
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep)
Sexual minority youth
Community partnerships
Provider-youth trust
Healthcare access
+25 more
Journal: Journal of Urban Health
• April-2018
Criminal justice practices in the USA disproportionately affect sexual and racial/ethnic minority men, who are at higher risk of incarceration. Previous research demonstrates associations between inca...
Incarceration
Transactional sex
Young men who have sex with men (ymsm)
Hiv
Health disparities
Criminal justice system
Racial/ethnic minority
Sexual risk behaviors
Hiv-infected ymsm
Homelessness
+15 more
Journal: mBio
• April-2015
Puberty is an important developmental stage wherein hormonal shifts mediate the physical and physiological changes that lead to menarche, but until now, the bacterial composition of vaginal microbiota...
Vaginal microbiota
Puberty
Menarche
Adolescent health
Lactobacillus
Gardnerella vaginalis
Bacterial vaginosis
Microbial composition
Reproductive health
Vaginal flora
+10 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2015
Purpose
For young women, new sexual experiences normatively increase after puberty and coincide with extensive changes to brain regions governing self-regulation of risk behavior. These neurodevelopm...
Adolescent sexual decision-making
Neuroimaging
Fmri
Risk-taking
Self-regulation
Cognitive control
Prefrontal cortex
Anterior cingulate cortex
Visual cortex
Neural activation
+43 more
Journal: AIDS and Behavior
• April-2015
Women (N = 138) with histories of illicit drug use were recruited into an electronic diary study that used Android smartphones for data collection. The diary was to be completed each day for 12 weeks...
Heterosexual anal intercourse
Women
Drug use
Daily diary study
Electronic data collection
Sexual behavior
Hiv prevention
Risk behaviors
Methamphetamine
Cocaine
+23 more
Journal: Trends in Microbiology
• April-2013
Research on the human microbiome is beginning to address factors associated with between-group differences. Recognition of the social and political nature of traditional race and ethnicity categories...
Ethnicity
Race
Microbiome
Human microbiome
Health disparities
Social determinants of health
Genetic variation
Cultural influences
Epidemiology
Microbiota
+19 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2013
Unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STI) continue to be significant public health problems, and adolescents are disproportionately affected by both. With national attention and f...
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (larc)
Dual-method contraception
Condoms
Adolescent sexual health
Unintended pregnancy
Sexually transmitted infections (sti)
Contraceptive use
Public health
Pregnancy prevention
Sti prevention
+10 more
Journal: The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• April-2012
Introduction
Recent nationally representative data documenting event-level condom use have included samples that are predominantly heterosexual, resulting in limited information on rates of condom us...
Condoms
Sexual event
Msm
Anal intercourse
Men
Condom use
Men who have sex with men (msm)
Sexual behavior
Hiv prevention
Sti risk
+21 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
• April-2012
Objective: To explore the relationships among impulse control, diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and diabetes management behaviors among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes.
Methods: A total of 204...
Adolescents
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
Diabetes management
Impulse control
Self-efficacy
Diabetes-specific self-efficacy
Health behavior
Emerging adults
Chronic disease management
+19 more
Journal: International Journal of STD & AIDS
• April-2010
Rectal sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common in men at risk for urethral infections with these pathogens, particularly men who have sex with men (MSM). However, for those individuals not r...
Rectal sti screening
Men who have sex with men (msm)
Self-obtained rectal specimens
Sti diagnostics
Sexual health
Community-based testing
Self-sampling acceptability
Sti prevention
Public health
Urethral infections
+19 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2008
We conducted a pilot study using new technology to track adolescent “place.” Using Global Positioning System (GPS)–enabled cell phones, we recruited and tracked 15 female adolescents for a 1-week peri...
Adolescents
Adolescent travel
Travel patterns
Gps tracking
Global positioning system (gps)
Adolescent health
Distance from home
Time of day
Day of week
Weekend travel
+17 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
• April-2007
Objective This study tested parallel adolescent and parent versions of the Perceptions of Adolescents’ Assumption of Diabetes Management scales. Methods First, 78 items developed from interview data w...
Adolescents
Diabetes
Diabetes management responsibility
Perceptions
Parental involvement
Self-care
Chronic disease management
Type 1 diabetes
Adolescent health
Family dynamics
+40 more
Journal: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• April-2005
Background:
Treatment of sex partners by patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) may prove to be an effective strategy in reducing reinfection and preventing the sequelae of sexually transmitted in...
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis
Sexually transmitted infections
Partner notification
Patient-delivered partner therapy
Sti prevalence
Sexual dyads
Sti treatment
Infection prevalence
+12 more
Journal: Journal of Adolescent Health
• April-2005
Over the past century, public health approaches to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have come from 1 of 2 camps. Although specific policies certainly reflected the times in which they arose, the...
Abstinence-only
Sti prevention
Public health policy
Adolescent health
Sexual education
Comprehensive sex education
Risk reduction
Epidemiologic causality
Sexual behavior
Virginity pledge
+21 more
Journal: Herpes : the Journal of the IHMF
• April-2004
Stigma affects both herpes-infected and uninfected people. The stigma associated with genital herpes may influence a person's decision to seek care or disclose the infection to others. For uninfected...
Genital herpes
Stigma
Care-seeking behaviors
Sexually transmitted infections (stis)
Herpes prevention
Sti disclosure
Public health approaches
Sti treatment
Health stigma
Stigma in healthcare
+6 more
Journal: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• April-2003
Study Objective: To describe frequency of douching and reasons as timing to menses, vaginal symptoms, and coitus and the association of these behaviors to the diagnosis of three sexually acquired infe...
Vaginal douching
Sexual health
Adolescent health
Young adult women
Sexually transmitted infections
Sti risk
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
Trichomonas
Sexual risk behaviors
+18 more
Journal: Journal of Research on Adolescence
• 1997
Relations of contraceptive behavior, problem behaviors, and health-protective behaviors were examined in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of sexually active adolescents. First-order...
Contraceptive behavior
Adolescent lifestyles
Structural modeling
Problem behaviors
Health-protective behaviors
Sexual health
Risk behavior
Adolescent contraceptive use
Alcohol use
Drug use
+22 more
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
In 2000, a total of 702 093 genital infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis and 358 995 due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.1 These reported ca...
Sexually transmitted diseases
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Infectious diseases
Public health
Asymptomatic infections
Disease burden
Epidemiology
Sti surveillance
Cdc reports
+15 more
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