Co-occurrence of Violence-Related Risk and Protective Behaviors and Adult Support Among Male Youth in Urban Neighborhoods.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Male youth in lower-resource neighborhoods bear a disproportionate burden of violence involvement, but little is known about clusters of specific violence-related behaviors to inform cross-cutting interventions that address multiple forms of violence.

Objective

To examine associations between adult support and patterns of violence and risk or protective behavior co-occurrence among male youths in urban neighborhoods.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional analysis of baseline and end-of-program data from a recently completed cluster-randomized sexual violence prevention trial across 20 lower-resource neighborhoods. Participants were male youths, aged 13 to 19 years, enrolled at youth-serving community agencies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from Ju

SUBMITTER: Culyba AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6745057 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature