Associations of social media and health content use with sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Increasing rates of mobile phone access present potential new opportunities and risks for adolescents' sexual and reproductive health in resource-poor settings. We investigated associations between mobile phone access/use and sexual risks in a cohort of 10-24-year-olds in South Africa. 1563 adolescents (69% living with HIV) were interviewed in three waves between 2014 and 2018. We assessed mobile phone access and use to search for health content and social media. Self-reported sexual risks included: sex after substance use, unprotected sex, multiple sexual partnerships and inequitable sexual partnerships in the past 12 months. We examined associations between mobile phone access/use and sexual risks using covariate-adjusted mixed-effects logistic regression models. Mobile phone access alon

SUBMITTER: Banougnin BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10796125 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature