The role of mother–daughter sexual risk communication in reducing sexual risk behaviors among urban adolescent females: a prospective study
Journal of Adolescent HealthPublished 31 July 2003
M. Katherine Hutchinson, John B. Jemmott, Loretta Sweet Jemmott, Paula K. Braverman, Geoffrey T. Fong
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The notion that mothers who communicate with their daughters about sex can affect their daughters' sexual behaviors in positive ways support the design and implementation of family-based approaches to improve parent-adolescent sexual risk communication as one means of reducing HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among inner-city adolescent females.
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This prospective study supports the notion that mothers who communicate with their daughters about sex can affect their daughters' sexual behaviors in positive ways. These findings lend support for the design and implementation of family-based approaches to improve parent-adolescent sexual risk communication as one means of reducing HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among inner-city adolescent females.
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