Table 1.
Sociodemographic and risk behaviour description of sample
|
Girls (n = 282) |
Boys (n = 190) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Currently datinga (n = 124) |
Currently non-datinga (n = 156) |
|
Currently datinga (n = 90) |
Currently non-datinga (n = 100) |
|
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| Mean | % (freq) | Mean | % (freq) | p | Mean | % (freq) | Mean | % (freq) | p | ||
| Age |
14.23 |
|
13.94 |
|
0.041 |
14.28 |
|
14.18 |
|
0.266 |
|
| SES (Live in a brick house) |
|
54.0 (67) |
|
66.5 (103) |
0.092 |
|
65.2 (58) |
|
67.0 (67) |
0.844 |
|
| Race |
Black |
|
39.5 (49) |
|
34.2 (53) |
0.533 |
|
47.8 (43) |
|
28.0 (28) |
0.145 |
| White |
|
9.7 (12) |
|
15.5 (24) |
|
7.8 (7) |
|
14.0 (14) |
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| Coloured or Indian |
|
50.8 (63) |
|
50.3 (78) |
|
44.4 (40) |
|
58.0 (58) |
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| Days absent |
0.45 |
|
0.37 |
|
0.363 |
0.37 |
|
0.48 |
|
0.360 |
|
| Ever repeated a school year |
|
12.9 (16) |
|
7.7 (12) |
0.020 |
|
20.2 (18) |
|
11.0 (11) |
0.051 |
|
| Problem drinking (past 3 months) |
|
21.1 (26) |
|
5.8 (9) |
0.075 |
|
16.7 (15) |
|
3.0 (3) |
0.092 |
|
| Drugb use (past 3 months) | 7.4 (9) | 1.9 (3) | 0.173 | 9.1 (8) | 4.0 (4) | 0.267 | |||||
aParticipants who had a partner at the time of the survey were classified as “Currently Dating” and those who had no partners were classified as “Currently Non-dating”.
bMarijuana and/or methamphetamine.