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Adolescent Knowledge And Attitudes About Abortion. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... A focus-group study of adolescents from cities across the United States revealed that they lacked accurate knowledge about abortion and the laws governing it. Most expressed erroneous beliefs about abortion, describing it as medically...

Adolescent Males' Abortion Attitudes: Data from a National Survey.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Roughly 13% of a nationally representative sample of 1,880 15-19-year-old males approve of abortion in each of eight circumstances presented to them, while about 4% disapprove in every instance. The proportions agreeing that abortion is...

The Relationship Between Childbearing Motivations and Attitude Toward Abortion Among Married Men and Women.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Relationships between positive and negative childbearing motivations and an abortion attitude index are examined among men and women from 401 married couples--half of whom had one child and half of whom were childless. A multivariate model...

A Direct Mailing to Teenage Males About Condom Use: Its Impact On Knowledge, Attitudes and Sexual Behavior.
January 1, 1996... Summary In August 1987, a letter, informational pamphlet and order coupon for free mail-order condoms were sent to an experimental group of teenage males 16-17 years of age. An experimental design was used to measure the impact of the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 1996... In "A Direct Mailing to Teenage Males About Condom Use: Its Impact on Knowledge. Attitudes and Sexual Behavior," by Douglas Kirby, Philip D. Harvey, David Claussenius and Marty Novar [21:12, 1989], reference is made in the second paragraph...

Condom Slippage and Breakage Rates.
January 1, 1996... A prospective study using two brands of condoms found that of 405 condoms used for intercourse, 7.9% either broke during intercourse or withdrawal or slipped off during intercourse; none of these events were related to condom brand, past condom...

Condom Use Among U.S. Men, 1991.
January 1, 1996... A 1991 study of a nationally representative sample of men aged 20-39 finds that 27% of sexually active men had used a condom in the four weeks before interview. Black men are more likely than white men to report condom use (38% vs. 25%), and...

Condom Characteristics: The Perceptions And Preferences of Men in the United States.
January 1, 1996... Perceptions regarding the consequences of condom use, as well as preferred characteristics of condoms, are examined in a nationally representative sample of 3,321 men aged 20-39. The psychological and interpersonal effect most often cited is...

Changes in Adolescent Males' Use of And Attitudes Toward Condoms, 1988-1991.
January 1, 1996... Data from more than 1,000 sexually active young males interviewed in 1988 for the National Survey of Adolescent Males at ages 15-19 and reinterviewed in 1990-1991 at ages 17-22 show that as the respondents grew older, their condom use declined....

Vasectomy and Prostate Cancer: More Questions Than Answers. (Special Report).
January 1, 1996... Concern arose in the family planning community in February 1993 when two studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that vasectomized men are at an increased risk of developing prostate cancer.(1) Prostate...

Multiple Heterosexual Partners and Condom Use Among Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites.
January 1, 1996... A telephone survey of 1,592 Hispanic and 629 non-Hispanic white men and women aged 18--49, randomly selected from nine states in the northeastern and southwestern United States, found that married Hispanic men are more likely to have had two or...

Can Condom Users Likely to Experience Condom Failure Be Identified?
January 1, 1996... A study based on a convenience sample of 177 couples who each used 11 condoms found that 103 condoms (5.3%) broke before or during intercourse and 67 condoms (3.5%) slipped off during sex. Couples who had not used a condom in the past year were...

The Role of Men in Contraceptive Decision-Making: Current Knowledge and Future Implications. (Special Report).
January 1, 1996... Although contraception has traditionally been the responsibility of women, men have been involved in decisions about contraception for centuries: Withdrawal is described in the Bible; (1) periodic abstinence was reportedly used in ancient...

Condom Breakage and Slippage Among Men In the United States.
January 1, 1996... Data on condom breakage and slippage from a nationally representative survey show that the average condom breakage rate experienced by 20-39-year-old men who have used a condom in the preceding six months was 2.7%, and that 1.9% of all condoms...

Which Is More Important to High School Students: Preventing Pregnancy or Preventing AIDS?
January 1, 1996... A sample of about 2,900 high school students in greater Miami, Florida, was surveyed to determine their attitudes toward pregnancy prevention vs. AIDS prevention and how these attitudes affect condom use. Female, Hispanic and black respondents...

Young Unmarried Men and Women Discuss Men's Role in Contraceptive Practice.
January 1, 1996... Focus groups with 76 sexually experienced young men and women living in the Denver area in 1993 explored the reasons unmarried men do or do not involve themselves in contraceptive practice. Motivation to use contraceptives is driven by a desire...

The Dynamics of Young Men's Condom Use During and Across Relationships. (Articles).
January 1, 1996... According to data from the 1991 National Survey of Adolescent Males, condom use is likely to be highest at the beginning of relationships and to decline as the relationship continues. The proportion of sexually active men aged 17-22 who used a...

Predictors of Condom Acquisition After an STD Clinic Visit.
January 1, 1996... Data from a survey of 691 men and women who made patient visits to an inner-city sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic and were given coupons to redeem for condoms at a neighborhood pharmacy show that only 22% of the sample did so. Gender,...

Sterilization Among Currently Married Men in the United States, 1991. (Articles).
January 1, 1996... Data from the 1991 National Survey of Men indicate that about 12% of married men aged 20-39 have had a vasectomy and about 13% are married to a woman who is sterilized. Multivariate analyses indicate that the likelihood of sterilization rises...

Evidence for the Acceptability of an Injectable Hormonal Method for Men. (Special Report).
January 1, 1996... The search for a safe, effective and reversible hormonal method of fertility regulation for men has been under way for more than 20 years. Several publicly supported and international biomedical research organizations, including the World...

Knowledge and Perceptions of Emergency Contraceptive Pills Among a College-Age Population: A Qualitative Approach.
January 1, 1996... Results from focus-group discussions with a population of university students who have convenient access to emergency contraceptive pills show that basic awareness about this method is high, although specific knowledge on appropriate use, such...

Title X and Family Planning Services for Men. (Comment).
January 1, 1996... Introduction The role of men as targets of family planning services varies greatly within the federally supported family planning services system. (*) While some family planning agencies exclusively serve women, most offer some services to...

The Availability of Educational and Training Materials On Men's Reproductive Health. (Comment).
January 1, 1996... The 1980s have seen a renewal of interest in the role of males in family planning and reproductive health. Some of the factors that have contributed to this trend include the current epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including...

Reproductive Health Counseling For Young Men: What Does It Do?
January 1, 1996... Summary A reproductive health intervention combining a highly explicit half-hour slide-tape program with a personal health consultation was provided to male patients aged 15-18 at a large health maintenance organization. A test of the...

Men at Family Planning Clinics: The New Patients? (Special Report).
January 1, 1996... The overwhelming majority of family planning clients in the United States are women. A recent Urban Institute survey of publicly funded family planning clinics found that in only 13% of clinics do male patients comprise more than 10% of the...

The Other Side of Black Female-Headed Families: The Status of Adult Black Men. (Comment).
January 1, 1996... Both in 1960 and in 1984, the median income of black families was approximately 56 percent that of white families. (1) From this fact, one could come to the quick conclusion that black Americans have made little or no economic progress in the...

Teenage Fathers: Working with the Neglected Partner In Adolescent Childbearing.
January 1, 1996... Summary The Teen Father Collaboration, a two-year national research and demonstration project launched in 1983, was designed to determine the most effective ways to assist teenage fathers in contributing to their children's social,...

Adolescent Fathers in the United States: Their Initial Living Arrangements, Marital Experience and Educational Outcomes.
January 1, 1996... Summary Data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey show that seven percent of young males aged 20-27 in 1984 had fathered a child while they were teenagers, more than three-quarters of them nonmaritally. One-third of those...

Fathers of Children Born To Young Urban Mothers.
January 1, 1996... Summary Fathers of babies born to a sample of urban mothers younger than 18 at delivery ranged in age from 14-50 and were, on average, 2-4 years older than the mothers. Among the adolescent women who had given birth to their first child,...

Patterns of Adult Male Coresidence Among Young Children of Adolescent Mothers.
January 1, 1996... Summary This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the coresidence patterns of children and adult males during the first three years of a child's life, with special attention to the children of...

Adolescent Males' Orientation Toward Paternity and Contraception.
January 1, 1996... Data from a nationally representative sample of 1,880 young men aged 15-19 reveal that neighborhood quality parental education, race or ethnicity and attitudes about male gender roles are related to young men's attitudes to ward an unplanned...

How Old Are U.S. Fathers? (Research Notes).
January 1, 1996... One in every six U.S. birth certificates have no information on the age of the baby's father; for more than four in 10 babies born to adolescent women, no data are available on the father's age. Information from mothers aged 15-49 who had...

Sexual Activity, Condom Use and AIDS Awareness Among Adolescent Males.
January 1, 1996... Summary New data from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males indicate that 60 percent of never-married young men ages 15-19 are sexually active. Among 17-19-year-old males living in metropolitan areas, the rate of sexual activity...

Early Sexual Activity Among Adolescents In Small Towns and Rural Areas: Race and Gender Patterns.
January 1, 1996... Summary A 1987 survey of 758 eighth-grade students from three rural counties in Maryland revealed that 61 percent of males and 47 percent of females have engaged in sexual intercourse, and that 77 percent of black students and 40 percent...

HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Sexual Behavior Among High School Students.
January 1, 1996... Summary Data from the 1989 Secondary School Student Health Risk Survey indicate that 54 percent of all high school students in the United States had had some form of HIV/AIDS education in school. Responses to a questionnaire on HIV/AIDS...

Adult Sexual Behavior in 1989: Number of Partners, Frequency of Intercourse and Risk of AIDS.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Summary Questions on sexual behavior that were added to the National Opinion Research Center's 1988 and 1989 General Social Surveys reveal that 97 percent of adult Americans have had intercourse since age 18. Respondents report having an...

Levels of Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Males in the United States.
January 1, 1996... Summary Although three-fifths of adolescent males aged 15-19 say they have had sexual intercourse, analyses of data from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males indicate that their level of sexual activity is relatively moderate. The...

The Association of AIDS Education and Sex Education with Sexual Behavior And Condom Use Among Teenage Men. (Articles).
January 1, 1996... According to a 1988 nationally representative survey, most 15-19-year-old men in the United States have received formal instruction about AIDS (73%), birth control (79%) and resisting sexual activity (58%). Results of multivariate analyses show...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 1996... In "The Association of AIDS Education and Sex Education with Sexual Behavior and Condom Use Among Teenage Men," by Leighton C. Ku, Freya L. Sonenstein and Joseph H. Pleck [24:100], the minus sign was left off the coefficient shown in Table 2...

High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Heterosexual Undergraduates at a Midwestern University.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Approximately 80% of a self-selected sample of 593 heterosexual undergraduate college students studied at a large Midwestern state university in 1988 had ever experienced penile-vaginal or penile-anal intercourse. One-fifth of the 477 sexually...

The Sexual Behavior of Men In the United States. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... (Family Planning Perspectives, 25:52-60, 1993) A nationally representative study of the sexual behavior of men aged 20-39 in the United States shows that the prevalence and frequency of sexual acts (vaginal, anal and oral) and sexual...

Perceptions of AIDS Risk and Severity And Their Association with Risk-Related Behavior Among U.S. Men.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... According to a nationally representative sample of 3,321 men aged 20-39 surveyed in 1991, men appear well aware of the severity of AIDS: Nearly all know that AIDS destroys the immune system and that there is no cure for the disease, but a...

Exploring Norms and Beliefs Related to AIDS Prevention Among California Hispanic Men.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... A focus-group study gathered qualitative information from Hispanic males in California regarding ethnic factors that might enhance or interfere with AIDS prevention efforts. A predominantly working-class convenience sample of 75 men aged 18-40...

Demographic Characteristics of Heterosexuals with Multiple Partners: The National AIDS Behavioral Surveys.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... In a study of risk behavior among heterosexuals, 9% of a national sample and 12% of a sample drawn from high-risk cities report having two or more sexual partners in the year before the survey. In both samples, sex with multiple partners is...

II. Multiple Sexual Partners Among Hispanics in High-Risk Cities. (Data from the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Data from a random sample of 4,658 heterosexual Hispanics from 23 high-risk cities in the 1990-1991 National AIDS Behavioral Surveys reveal that 11% of Hispanics have had multiple partners in the past year--17% of men and 4% of women. The study...

III. Multiple Sexual Partners Among Blacks in High-Risk Cities. (Data from the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... The National AIDS Behavioral Surveys collected data between June 1990 and February 1991 on the prevalence of multiple sex partners and condom use among 2, 166 blacks living in cities with a high pre valence of AIDS cases. Almost one-fifth (19%)...

IV. Multiple Sexual Partners Among Young Adults in High-Risk Cities. (Data from the National AIDS Behavioral Surveys).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Among a sample of 1,334 urban heterosexuals aged 18-25 from the 1990-1991 National AIDS Behavioral Surveys, 24% report having had more than one sexual partner during the past year. Young men are more than twice as likely as young women, and...

Sexual Risk Behavior and Condom Use Among Street Youth in Hollywood.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... A study of 610 street youth aged 13--23 who attended drop-in centers in Hollywood, Calif., reveals that 96% are sexually experienced. One-half of the young men and one-third of the young women have engaged in sex for food, money, shelter, drugs...

The Relationship of Substance Use to Sexual Activity Among Young Adults in the United States.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Data on substance use and sexual activity from a nationally representative, probability-based sample of young adults aged 18-30 in 1990 indicate that 86% of respondents had had sex in the previous 12 months, with three-fourths reporting no more...

High-Risk Sexual Behavior at a Midwestern University: A Confirmatory Survey. (Research Note).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... According to a 1991 study of sexual behavior based on a random sample of heterosexual undergraduates at a Midwestern university 80% of the males and 73% of the females had experienced vaginal or anal intercourse. The average age at first...

Parent and Peer Communication Effects on AIDS-Related Behavior Among U.S. High School Students.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Data from a 1989 national probability sample of 8,098 high school students in the United States indicate that young people's discussions about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with parents and with peers are highly correlated and have...

Sex, Alcohol and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A National Survey.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... The analysis of a representative national survey of households provides strong evidence that alcohol overshadows illicit drug use as a risk factor for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Men and women who report a history of STDs are...

Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... Multivariate analysis of data from two nationally representative surveys of adult men and women indicates that the likelihood of a self-reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) infection varies by gender, race and socioeconomic status, even...

National Survey of Men: Design and Execution. (Technical Note).(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1996... The National Survey of Men (NSMI) was conducted in 1991, under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to examine issues related to sexual behavior and condom use among men aged 20-39. It is intended to serve...