News tagged with risky sexual behaviors
Researchers develop game for HIV+ youth
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have developed a game for HIV-positive youth, +CLICK, designed to reduce secondary transmission of the virus.
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Risky behaviors on TV may be modeled by inexperienced viewers
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Content analyses demonstrate that TV programming is highly saturated with sexual content and risky sexual behavior. A new study in the Journal of Communication shows that people with direct experience with such behavior are no ...
Trends in sexual behaviors similar for teens who take few health risk and those who take many
Dec 19, 2008 |
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Adolescent health risk behaviors often occur together, suggesting that youth involvement with one risk behavior may inform understanding of other risk behaviors, but in a study to examine the association between involvement ...
New study shows linkage between teen girls' weight and sexual behavior
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A University of Pittsburgh study sheds new light on the relationship between race, body weight and sexual behavior among adolescent girls. The results suggest that a girl's ethnicity and her actual weight or perception of ...
Can involvement in extra-curricular activities help prevent juvenile delinquency?
Mar 22, 2008 |
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Parents concerned about their teens' involvement in risky and criminal behavior have traditionally involved their kids in sports, church and community activities. Do those activities really help prevent risky behaviors in ...
Teens who believe they'll die young are more likely to engage in risky behavior
Jun 29, 2009 |
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University of Minnesota Medical School researcher Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues found that one in seven adolescents believe that it is highly likely that they will die before age 35, and this belief predicted ...
Frequent self-cutting linked to risky sexual behavior in teens
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Teens who repeatedly cut themselves are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, increasing their chances of possibly contracting HIV, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pe ...
Fathers respond to teens' risky sexual behavior with increased supervision
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they're 18. A new longitudinal study finds that when adolescents engage in risky sexual activity, fathers respond by increasing their efforts to supervise and monitor ...
Video doc helps HIV-positive patients reduce risky behaviors
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 09, 2008 |
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A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed ...
Teen drug education also helps curb risky sexual behavior, study finds
Apr 29, 2009 |
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School-based drug education programs for adolescents can have a long-term positive impact on sexual behavior in addition to curbing substance abuse, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Gay men's risky sexual behavior linked to feeling undesirable
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Gay men who are not considered sexually desirable are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior according to new research out of the University of Toronto. They may also develop psychological problems as a consequence ...
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