TABLE 1.
Sample Distribution and Percentage of Participants With STDs for Select Risk and Protective Factors: 14- to 19-Year-Old Black Female Teenagers Accessing Reproductive Health Services at a Publically Funded Clinic in Atlanta, GA
| Sample Distribution, % (n) |
Participants with an STD, % (n) |
P-Value (1-Sided χ2) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Had an STD | |||
| No | 73.5 (249) | ||
| Yes | 26.5 (90) | ||
| Risk behaviors | |||
| Initiated vaginal sex by age 15 y | |||
| No | 30.7 (104) | 18.3 (19) | 0.01 |
| Yes | 69.3 (235) | 30.2 (71) | |
| Ever forced to have sex (oral, anal, vaginal) | |||
| No | 86.7 (294) | 25.5 (75) | 0.18 |
| Yes | 13.3 (45) | 33.3 (15) | |
| Lifetime no. sex partners | |||
| 1–2 | 34.5 (117) | 21.4 (25) | |
| 3–6 | 43.4 (147) | 27.9 (41) | 0.02 |
| ≥7 | 22.1 (75) | 32.0 (24) | |
| Used drugs, past month | |||
| No | 72.3 (245) | 25.3 (62) | 0.24 |
| Yes | 27.7 (94) | 29.8 (28) | |
| Condom use, past month | |||
| Did not have sex, past month | 24.2 (82) | 24.4 (20) | |
| Never or sometimes | 60.5 (205) | 27.8 (57) | 0.29 |
| Always used condoms | 15.3 (52) | 25.0 (13) | |
| Provider ever told her she had STD | |||
| No | 57.5 (195) | 23.6 (46) | 0.10 |
| Yes | 42.5 (144) | 30.6 (44) | |
| Perceptions of STDs | |||
| Worry about STDs, past 6 mo | |||
| No | 61.4 (208) | 23.6 (49) | 0.07 |
| Yes | 38.6 (131) | 31.3 (41) | |
| Perceived burden of having an STD, next 6 mo | |||
| Could deal with it | 23.3 (79) | 39.2 (31) | 0.003 |
| Worst that could happen | 76.7 (260) | 22.7 (59) | |
| Dirty and/or embarrassed if had an STD, next 6 mo | |||
| Disagree with both | 9.7 (33) | 39.4 (13) | 0.02 |
| Disagree with one | 13.6 (46) | 32.6 (15) | |
| Agree with both | 76.7 (260) | 23.8 (62) | |
| Relationship with most recent male partner | |||
| Length of sexual relationship | |||
| 0–3 mo | 49.6 (168) | 29.2 (49) | |
| 4–11 mo | 25.6 (88) | 28.4 (25) | 0.07 |
| ≥12 mo | 24.4 (83) | 19.3 (16) | |
| Serious partner or boyfriend | |||
| No | 43.7 (148) | 31.8 (47) | 0.04 |
| Yes | 56.3 (191) | 22.5 (43) | |
| Frequency of sex, most recent partner | |||
| Once or twice only | 23.7 (80) | 32.5 (26) | 0.10 |
| Less than monthly | 27.2 (92) | 25.0 (23) | |
| At least once a month | 49.1 (166) | 24.1 (40) | |
| Still having sex | |||
| No | 22.8 (77) | 26.0 (20) | 0.53 |
| Yes | 77.2 (261) | 26.4 (69) | |
| Multiple or concurrent sex partners, past 6 mo | |||
| 1 partner | 50.4 (171) | 21.6 (37) | |
| Serial, multiple partners | 38.3 (130) | 27.7 (36) | 0.004 |
| Concurrent, multiple partners | 11.2 (38) | 44.7 (17) | |
| Certain he did not have concurrent sex partners | |||
| Sure he did not have | 34.9 (118) | 21.2 (25) | 0.07 |
| Sure he had or uncertain | 64.9 (220) | 29.1 (64) | |
| Social factors and age | |||
| Household member received public assistance | |||
| No or don't know | 23.3 (79) | 30.4 (24) | 0.23 |
| Yes | 76.7 (260) | 25.4 (66) | |
| Mother, completed high school/general equivalency diploma | |||
| No and don't know | 31.6 (107) | 29.9 (32) | 0.21 |
| Yes | 68.4 (232) | 25.0 (58) | |
| Lived with father (and mother/other adults) | |||
| No | 79.6 (265) | 28.8 (76) | 0.04 |
| Yes | 20.4 (68) | 17.6 (12) | |
| Had paid job, past 6 mo | |||
| No | 71.7 (243) | 28.8 (70) | 0.09 |
| Yes (Job Corp, part-time, full-time, sporadic) | 28.3 (96) | 20.8 (20) | |
| Age, y | |||
| 14–16 | 35.4 (120) | 32.5 (39) | 0.05 |
| 17–19 | 64.6 (219) | 23.3 (51) |