Demographic characteristics |
Gender
Age
School status
Employment status
Time with friends
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Relationships and sexual intimacy |
Past and present romantic relationships
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Sexual touching
Three sexual behavior questions (vaginal, anal, oral)
Frequency of condom use
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Number of sexual partners
For analysis purposes, we combined the two “sexual touch” questions into one variable “anytouch,” and the vaginal, anal, and oral sex questions into one variable “anysex”. We then created three mutually exclusive categories from these variables including “no intimacy,” “touchonly,” and “anysex.” This enabled us to analyze as a separate category those who only engaged in sexual touching but had not engaged in vaginal, oral, and/or anal sex.
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Alcohol consumption. |
Ever drinking alcohol
Age of first alcohol consumption
Alcohol consumption in the past 6 months
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Being drunk in the past 6 months
Mutually exclusive categories were developed for “never drank,” “drank 6-months ago or longer,” and “drank within the past 6-months.”
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Timeline followback method |
The TLFB is a self-report method to assess an individual’s recent daily drinking behavior. Respondents were asked to recall the number of standardized alcoholic drinks and the number of hours in which they consumed the drinks, over the 30 days prior to the survey interview. A calendar was provided with important dates and holidays indicated as well as information and photographs illustrating a standard drink or unit of alcohol based on locally available and popular alcoholic beverages. |
Episode specific drinking and sexual behavior |
“After your partner drank alcohol, but you did not, have you ever had sex (vaginal, anal, and/or oral)?”
“After you drank alcohol, but your partner did not, have you ever had sex ….”
“After both you and your partner drank alcohol, have you ever had sex ….”
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