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  • Public Health
  • Sociology
  • Adolescent Health

Background:

  • Racial-ethnic disparities in adolescent sexual risk behavior contribute to adult health disparities.
  • Existing research on neighborhood disadvantage as a cause of these disparities yields mixed results.
  • Long-term exposure and estimation bias from time-varying covariates require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between long-term neighborhood disadvantage and adolescent sexual risk behavior.
  • To compare the predictive power of duration-weighted versus point-in-time measures of neighborhood disadvantage.
  • To investigate the role of neighborhood disadvantage in explaining racial-ethnic differences in sexual risk.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study.
  • Employed marginal structural models with inverse probability of treatment weights.
  • Compared a point-in-time proximal measure with a duration-weighted measure of neighborhood disadvantage.

Main Results:

  • Multiracial, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic youth showed higher sexual risk and longer exposure to neighborhood disadvantage compared to non-Hispanic white adolescents.
  • Duration-weighted neighborhood disadvantage exposure was a stronger predictor of early sexual initiation and number of partners by age 15.
  • Duration-weighted exposure explained a significant portion of race-ethnic disparities in adolescent sexual risk.

Conclusions:

  • Long-term neighborhood disadvantage is a critical factor influencing adolescent sexual risk behaviors.
  • Duration-weighted measures provide a more accurate assessment of neighborhood effects than point-in-time measures.
  • Addressing neighborhood disadvantage may be key to mitigating racial-ethnic health disparities originating in adolescence.