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Article Excerpt
A young adult's risk factors for STDs include not only risky sexual behaviors, such as inconsistent condom use, but also a variety of environmental and psychosocial factors from childhood and adolescence. (1) Findings from a nationally representative sample of young adults reveal that measures of past socioeconomic status, abuse, exposure to violence, substance use and depression are associated with current or recent STD diagnoses, and that disease risk increases with the number of these factors. Moreover, even after key sexual risk factors are taken into account, young adults have an elevated likelihood of a recent STD diagnosis if they were abused during childhood, have been in a gang, have used alcohol frequently or have been depressed (odds ratio, 1.5 for each).
Guided by the idea that disease transmission is influenced not just by individual behavior but also by one's exposure to social, economic and environmental factors, researchers used data from Wave 3 of...
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