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Parents can help black teen girls talk about condom use.(Brief Article)
2002 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Black adolescent females who can talk to their parents about sex are more likely to discuss condom use with their sexual partners, according to a new study.
The study also showed that teenage females who rarely talked with their partners about pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention were also 50% less likely to report condom use during recent sexual episodes, said Richard A. Crosby, PhD, of the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory Center for AIDS Research in Atlanta, Georgia.
This finding is consistent with previous research that has shown poor communication is associated with low condom-use rates. "Studies suggest that communication between sex partners may be an important determinant of condom use among young adults and, by extension, among adolescents," Crosby said in the study published in the March 2002 issue of Health Education & Behavior.
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