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Prevalence and associated factors of risky sexual behaviors among undergraduate students in state universities of Western Province in Sri Lanka: a descriptive cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Risky sexual behaviors (RSB) are becoming an important problem all over the world. RSB are defined as behaviors leading to sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated factors of RSB among undergradua...

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Autores principales:	Perera, Upuli Amaranganie Pushpakumari, Abeysena, Chrishantha
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987645/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29866189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0546-z

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