Table 3.

Sexual and contraceptive behaviors according to type of sex education received among women 15–24 years in the United States between 2011 and 2017, results from bivariate and multivariate logistic regression

	Comprehensive sex education⁎ (weighted %)	Non-comprehensive sex education⁎ ref. (weighted %)	Total (weighted %)	Odds ratio (OR) (95% CI)	Adjusted odds ratio⁎⁎ (aOR) (95% CI)
Age at first sex before age 15	8.9	16.4	13.6	0.45 (0.37–0.67)	0.55 (0.40–0.74)
Non-volitional first sex (all)	3.2	7.6	5.9	0.39 (0.24–0.66)	0.42 (0.26–0.72)
Non-volitional first sex, age at first sex before age 15	4.5	18.1	14.1	0.22 (0.08–0.59)	0.31 (0.09–1.04)
Non-volitional first sex, age at first sex 15 and above	3.0	6.0	4.8	0.49 (0.28–0.85)	0.54 (0.31–0.94)
Contraceptive use at volitional first sex	84.3	76.8	79.8	1.62 (1.17–2.25)	1.63 (1.18–2.25)
Use of very effective methods† at first sex among contraceptive users at volitional first sex	36.3	30.4	32.9	1.30 (0.98–1.73)	1.35 (1.04–1.75)
Current contraceptive use	86.4	87.7	87.2	0.90 (0.64–1.26)	0.87 (0.63–1.21)
Use of very effective methods among current contraceptive users†	75.2	71.5	73.1	1.21 (0.93–1.56)	1.22 (0.95–1.59)

Notes: ref. = reference group.

^⁎Comprehensive sex education: participants learned about all of the following six topics before first sex (age at first sex, non-volitional first sex, contraceptive use at first sex) or prior to age 18 (current contraceptive use): how to say no to sex, methods of birth control, where to get birth control, how to use a condom, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV/AIDS; non-comprehensive sex education: participants learned one or more, but not all, of the sex education topics surveyed.

^⁎⁎adjusted odds ratio adjusted for age, race, federal poverty level (%), education, mother's education, metropolitan statistical area (community type), insurance, religion, and religiosity at age 14.

^†Methods of hormonal contraception or long acting reversible contraception.