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Home > Research > IU study of rural adolescents supports delay in sexual activity | |
| An IU national study of sexual
activity among rural adolescents supports education programs that
advocate postponing sexual activity. In announcing the findings, William
Yarber, senior director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
in the IU School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, said,
“Our findings suggest that rural adolescents who initiate sexual at
an early age are at markedly greater risk of engaging in subsequent
sexual risk behaviors, such as having multiple sex partners and not
using condoms.”
Yarber is principal author of the national study of 569 sexually experienced rural adolescent females and 561 sexually experienced rural adolescent males who participated in the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The survey findings have been published in the current issue of American Journal of Health Education as the first study identifying these associations among a nationally representative sample of rural adolescents. | |
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