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Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample

BACKGROUND: Sex with multiple partners (SMP) is one of the important contributing factors for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents and young adults, especially among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) youth. Past studies mainly focus on examining associations of alcohol...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xiaoyun, Wu, Li-Tzy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28056883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3905-0
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description BACKGROUND: Sex with multiple partners (SMP) is one of the important contributing factors for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents and young adults, especially among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) youth. Past studies mainly focus on examining associations of alcohol or club drugs use with unprotected sexual behaviors among adult homo/bisexual men, while little is known about the temporal association between marijuana use (MU) and SMP among LGB youth. METHODS: This study examined the relationship between MU and SMP among LGB adolescents and young adults. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) logistic regression analyses were utilized to analyze four waves’ public-use Add Health data (N = 694, youth who reported a homo/bisexual status at any wave; Wave 1: aged 11–21; Wave 4: aged 24–32). RESULTS: After adjusting for other substance use, current depression, mother-child relationship quality at Wave 1, and socioeconomic variables, past-year MU was both concurrently and prospectively associated with past-year SMP. The moderating effect of age was not found. CONCLUSION: MU is concurrently and prospectively associated with increased odds of SMP in the adolescent sample and in the young adult sample. Findings imply that prevention/intervention on HIV risk behaviors may benefit from MU reduction not only in LGB adolescents but also in young adults.
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spelling pubmed-52176292017-01-09 Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample Zhang, Xiaoyun Wu, Li-Tzy BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Sex with multiple partners (SMP) is one of the important contributing factors for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents and young adults, especially among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) youth. Past studies mainly focus on examining associations of alcohol or club drugs use with unprotected sexual behaviors among adult homo/bisexual men, while little is known about the temporal association between marijuana use (MU) and SMP among LGB youth. METHODS: This study examined the relationship between MU and SMP among LGB adolescents and young adults. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) logistic regression analyses were utilized to analyze four waves’ public-use Add Health data (N = 694, youth who reported a homo/bisexual status at any wave; Wave 1: aged 11–21; Wave 4: aged 24–32). RESULTS: After adjusting for other substance use, current depression, mother-child relationship quality at Wave 1, and socioeconomic variables, past-year MU was both concurrently and prospectively associated with past-year SMP. The moderating effect of age was not found. CONCLUSION: MU is concurrently and prospectively associated with increased odds of SMP in the adolescent sample and in the young adult sample. Findings imply that prevention/intervention on HIV risk behaviors may benefit from MU reduction not only in LGB adolescents but also in young adults. BioMed Central 2017-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5217629/ /pubmed/28056883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3905-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
title_full Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
title_fullStr Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
title_full_unstemmed Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
title_short Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
title_sort marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28056883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3905-0
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