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General Reports
 

General Population

      Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
Are Parental Relationships Always Protective? A Social Network Analysis of Black, Latino, and White Homeless Youth and Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors.
Craddock JB, Rice E, Rhoades H, Winetrobe H.
Prev Sci. 2016 Nov;17(8):914-924.
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Ecodevelopmental Trajectories of Family Functioning: Links With HIV/STI Risk Behaviors and STI Among Black Adolescents
Córdova D, Heinze JE, Mistry R, et a
Dev Psychol. 2016 Jun 2.
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Neighborhood Condition and Geographic Locale in Assessing HIV/STI Risk Among African American Adolescents.
Kerr JC, Valois RF, Siddiqi A,  et al
AIDS Behav. 2014 Aug 10
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Testing Pathways Linking Exposure to Community Violence and Sexual Behaviors Among African American Youth.
Voisin DR, Hotton AL, Neilands TB.
J Youth Adolesc. 2013 Dec 11.
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Trajectories of multiple adolescent health risk behaviors in a low-income African American population.
Mustanski B, Byck GR, Dymnicki A,  et al
 Dev Psychopathol. 2013 Nov;25(4 Pt 1):1155-69.
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Psychosocial Outcomes of Sexual Risk Reduction in a Brief Intervention for Urban African American Female Adolescents.
Bangi A, Dolcini MM, Harper GW,  et al
J HIV AIDS Soc Serv. 2013;12(2):146-159.
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Parental Influences of Sexual Risk Among Urban African American Adolescent Males.
Harris AL, Sutherland MA, Hutchinson MK.
 J Nurs Scholarsh. 2013 Mar 1.
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Sexually transmitted infections, sexual risk behavior, and intimate partner violence among african american adolescent females with a male sex partner recently released from incarceration.
 Swartzendruber A, Brown JL, Sales JM, et al
J Adolesc Health. 2012 Aug;51(2):15
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Hopelessness and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescent African American Males in a Low-Income Urban Community.
Kagan S, Deardorff J, McCright J, et al
Am J Mens Health. 2012 Mar 8
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Young Men Who Have Sex With Men

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Unrecognized HIV infection, risk behaviors, and perceptions of risk among young black men who have sex with men--six U.S. cities,1994-1998.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002 Aug 23;51(33):733-6
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"Let us go into the house of the Lord": participation in African American churches among young African American men who have sex with men.
Woodyard JL, Peterson JL, Stokes JP.
J Pastoral Care 2000 Winter;54(4):451-60
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Girls

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
HIV-Related Sexual Risk Behavior Among African American Adolescent Girls.
Danielson CK, Walsh K, McCauley J,  et al
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2014 May;23(5):413-9.
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Age Differences in STDs, Sexual Behaviors, and Correlates of Risky Sex Among Sexually Experienced Adolescent African-American Females.
Sales JM, Brown JL, Diclemente RJ, et al J
Pediatr Psychol. 2011 Sep 20
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Co-occurrence of intoxication during sex and sexually transmissible infections among young African American women: does partner intoxication matter?
Crosby RA, Diclemente RJ, Wingood GM, et al 
Sex Health. 2008 Sep;5(3):285-9.
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Self-concept and adolescents' refusal of unprotected sex: a test of mediating mechanisms among African American girls.
Salazar LF, DiClemente RJ, Wingood GM, et al
Prev Sci. 2004 Sep;5(3):137-49.
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Drug Use
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Contextual Predictors of Injection Drug Use Among Black Adolescents and Adults in US Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2007.
Cooper HL, West B, Linton S, Hunter-Jones J,  et al
Am J Public Health. 2015 Dec 21:e1-e10. [
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The relationship between substance use and sexual health among African American female adolescents with a history of seeking mental health services.
 Woods-Jaeger BA, Jaeger JA, Donenberg GR, Wilson HW.
Womens Health Issues. 2013 Nov-Dec;23(6):e365-71
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HIV Information and Behavioral Skills Moderate the Effects of Relationship Type and Substance Use on HIV Risk Behaviors Among African American Youth.
Mustanski B, Byck GR, Newcomb ME, et al
AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2013 May 23.
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Patterns of initiation of sex and drug-related activities among urban low-income African-American adolescents.
Li X, Stanton B, Cottrell L, et al.
J Adolesc Health 2001 Jan;28(1):46-54
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Self-report stability of adolescent substance use: are there differences for gender, ethnicity and age?
Shillington AM, Clapp JD.
Drug Alcohol Depend 2000 Jul 1;60(1):19-27
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The role of acculturation in the substance abuse behavior of African-American and Latino adolescents: advances, issues, and recommendations.
De La Rosa M, Vega R, Radisch MA.
J Psychoactive Drugs 2000 Jan-Mar;32(1):33-42
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Alcohol
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Co-occurrence of intoxication during sex and sexually transmissible infections among young African American women: does partner intoxication matter?
Crosby RA, Diclemente RJ, Wingood GM, et al 
Sex Health. 2008 Sep;5(3):285-9.
Abstract		  
Reducing High-Risk Behavior
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Teen Club: a nursing intervention for reducing risk-taking behavior and improving well-being in female African American adolescents.
Tuttle J, Bidwell-Cerone S, Campbell-Heider N, et al.
J Pediatr Health Care 2000 May-Jun;14(3):103-8
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