Table 3.
Prevalence Rates, Means and Standard Deviations for Sexual and Sexual Risk Behaviors for Adolescents who Experienced Sexual Debut.
| Healthy Weight | SOComps | WLS | |||
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| n = 70 | n = 24 | n = 23 | |||
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| M (SD)/% | B(SE)/OR (95% CI) | M (SD)/% | B(SE)/OR (95% CI) | ||
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| Age at first intercourse | 15.06(1.05) | 14.48(1.61) | −0.11(0.52) | 15.15(1.66) | 0.04(0.33) |
| Years since sexual debut | 1.56(1.13) | 1.52(1.63) | 0.11(0.52) | 1.70(1.21) | −0.01(0.32) |
| Number of partnersa | 2.38(1.18) | 2.38(1.25) | −0.03(0.47) | 2.04(1.07) | −0.47(0.13)* |
| HIV risk behaviorsb | 2.87(1.86) | 2.71(2.14) | −0.59(0.36) | 2.78(1.91) | −0.59(0.41) |
| Birth Control Consistency c | 3.77(2.22) | 3.96(2.44) | 0.43(0.46) | 4.86(1.91) | 1.16(0.25)* |
| % Condoms during last sexual intercourse | 74.3 | 58.3 | 0.58(0.29–2.51) | 69.6 | 1.09(0.63–1.88) |
| % Hormonal contraception d | 65.7 | 33.3 | 0.38(0.18–0.79)* | 60.9 | 0.87(0.58–1.29) |
| % who have been pregnant | 15.7 | 0 | -- | 13.0 | -- |
| % reporting STIs e | 28.6 | 0 | -- | 17.4e | |
Note. STIs = Sexually Transmitted Infections.
significantly different (p < .05) from Healthy Weight. Covariates included age, race and whether the adolescent had experienced any childhood maltreatment in the comparisons of the severely obese females to HW females. In the comparisons of the two severely obese females, BMI was added as an additional covariate.
Coded as 0=none; 1=1 partner; 2=2 to 3 partners; 3=4 to 7 partners; 4=8 to10 partners; 5=more than 10 partners.
Variable is the sum of 11 items (range 0–11).
Variables were scored from 1 = I never use birth control to 6 = for sure, every time I have sex I use birth control.
WLS significantly different (p<.05) from SOComps.
Results of the Fishers Exact Test showed significant difference between WLS and SOComps.