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Carla J Berg1, Julia E Painter, Jessica M Sales
1Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Atlanta, GA, USA. cjberg@emory.edu
Objectives:
To examine the relationship of smoking to sexual risk outcomes among African American adolescent females.
Methods:
We analyzed baseline data from an HIV intervention trial, including sexual risk (older sex partners, number of vaginal sex partners, sex while high on drugs/alcohol, STI diagnosis) and smoking status among 715 participants.
Results:
Smoking prevalence was 23.1%. Controlling for covariates, smoking predicted having older partners (P=.001), having sex while high on alcohol or drugs (P<.001), and STI diagnosis (P=.046), after including other sexual risk outcomes in the model.
Conclusions:
Smoking is an independent risk factor for sexual risk behaviors and STI diagnosis.
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