Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-25-2015
Keywords
intervention, longitudinal, problem behaviors, truant youth, youth sexual risk behavior
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2013.872069
Abstract
Truant youths are likely to engage in a number of problem behaviors, including sexual risky behaviors. As part of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded, prospective intervention project, a sample of truant youths' sexual risk behavior was tracked over five time points. Analyses of the data was informed by four objectives: (a) determine if a growth model parameterization was consistent with the youths' sexual risk behavior, (b) assess the impact of a brief intervention (BI) targeting substance use on their sexual risk behavior over time, (c) identify any sexual risk behavior subgroups, and (d) identify any differential, longitudinal effects of the BI on the youths' sexual risk behavior. Results indicated the youths' sexual risk behavior reflected a linear growth model; no intervention effects were found on their sexual risk behavior over time; distinct sexual risk behavior subgroups were found; and no patterned intervention effects were found in regard to the sexual risk behavior subgroups. At the same time, there is a very serious need to provide effective sexual risk reduction intervention services to truant youths.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Child & Adolescent Abuse, v. 25, issue 2, p. 89-104
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Child & Adolescent Abuse on 25 June 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1067828X.2013.872069.
Scholar Commons Citation
Dembo, Richard; Robinson, Rhissa B.; Ungaro, Rocío; Winters, Ken C.; and Karas, Lora, "A Longitudinal Study of Truant Youths ’ Involvement in Sexual Risk Behavior" (2015). Criminology Faculty Publications. 3.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cjp_facpub/3
