Cognitive precursors to adolescents' reproductive health: Exploring the role of school-based health services.

ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to examine associations between the number of school-based health services (SBHS) provided and the cognitive precursors to adolescents' reproductive health, including birth control self-efficacy, motivation to use birth control, attitudes toward birth control, and contraception knowledge. Further, this study examined whether these associations varied by adolescents' age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and race/ethnicity. Data were drawn from two waves of Add Health, a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents (1994-96). Results from hierarchical linear regression models indicated that the number of SBHS interacted with adolescents' age to predict birth control self-efficacy, such that a greater number of SBHS were associat

SUBMITTER: Finan LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319918 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature