African American and Hispanic adolescent STI and pregnancy prevention: Whose responsibility is it, anyway?

This dissertation utilized quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the role of responsibility in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancy through condom use and other sexual behaviors among young adolescents. Data were analyzed across race and gender and three papers were developed. The quantitative portion used logistic regression to assess associations between personal responsibility, as well as other know correlates, and reported condom use and condom use intentions as a means of STI and pregnancy prevention among 445 inner-city, high school adolescents. Responsibility to prevent pregnancy by providing the condom was associated with condom use at last sex and consistent condom use. Responsibility to prevent acquiring a STI by using a condom was significantly associated with consistent condom use. No significant associations were found between responsibility and condom use intentions. ^ The qualitative section of the dissertation project involved conducting 28 in-depth interviews among 9th and 10th grade, African American and Hispanic students who attended a large urban school district in South Central Texas. Perceptions of responsibility for preventing STIs and unintended pregnancy, as well as for condom use, were explored. Male and female adolescents expressed joint responsibility to prevent a STI or pregnancy. Perceptions of responsibility for providing and using the condoms were mixed. Despite the indication of both partners, mostly all participants implied that females, more so than the males, had the final responsibility to prevent contracting a STI, a pregnancy, to provide a condom, and to make sure a condom was used. Participants expressed the role of parents' involvement for preventing these outcomes as well as the need for more sexual health education and access to preventative methods. ^ The last section of this dissertation involved qualitative inquiry to ascertain perceptions of reasons why adolescents engage in anal and oral (non-coital) sex. Pleasure-seeking and giving as well social influence and pressure were described as the main reasons why teenagers have non-coital sex. Other reasons included conveniences of participating in these behaviors such as ease of performing oral sex and anal sex as a convenient alternative to vaginal sex. Sexual inexperience was an indicator for why anal sex occurs. Many of the reasons involved misperceptions and adolescents who practice these sexual behaviors place themselves at-risk for contracting a STI. ^ This dissertation increased the current knowledge base about adolescent sexual responsibility and non-coital behaviors. Future studies should explore perceptions of responsibility and actual sexual activity practices among adolescents to reduce the burden of STIs and pregnancy as well as help public health professionals develop programs for adolescent populations, schools, and communities where these issues persist.^

Journal of the Grand council of South Carolina ... /

[v.1] August 25, 1671-June 24, 1680 -- [v.2] April 11, 1692--September 26, 1692.

Annual report of the South Carolina State Highway Deptartment.

Report year irregular.

Report of radiometric reconnaissance in Virginia, North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and parts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

"Contract Number AT (49-1) 860 - Mod. # 1-4."

Monazite placer at the junction of the North Tyger River with the Middle Tyger River, Spartanburg County, South Carolina /

"January 1955."

Monazite placers of the Broad River and Thicketty Creek, Cherokee County, South Carolina /

"May 1955."

Hollow Creek monazite placer, Aiken County, South Carolina /

"March 1954."

The South Carolina state budget for the fiscal year ending ... /

Description based on: 1928.

South Carolina digest, 1783-1886.

"Covering all the decisions reported in the 84 volumes of law and equity reports and South Carolina reports, vols. 1 to 25 including all cases down to Southeastern reporter, with table of cases digested compiled under the American digest classification."

Old Ben Manx, or, The secret dispatches : a tale of South Carolina /

Mode of access: Internet.

A sketch of the Negro in politics, especially in South Carolina and Mississippi /

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1979.--21 cm.

A digest of the laws of the United States & the State of South-Carolina now of force, relating to the militia : with an appendix, containing the patrol laws; the laws of the government of slaves and free persons of colour; the decisions of the Constitutional Court and Court of Appeals of South- Carolina therein; and an abstract from the rules and regulations of the United States' Army /

Mode of access: Internet.

Living Christianity delineated, in the diaries and letters of two eminently pious persons lately deceased : viz. Mr. Hugh Bryan, and Mrs. Mary Hutson, both of South-Carolina /

Shaw & Shoemaker