Original articleAdolescent Dual Method Use: Relevant Attitudes, Normative Beliefs and Self-Efficacy
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Data source
Data are from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) [23]. Approximately 90,000 7–12th graders at 134 junior and senior high schools completed Add Health in-school surveys, and a random subsample of 12,105 completed additional in-home surveys during the 1994–95 school year (Wave 1); 9–18 months later, participants in 7–11th grades at Wave 1 provided in-home data for Wave 2.
In-home surveys included questions about sexual and contraceptive
Participant characteristics
As noted in Table 1, the study sample consisted of 1123 adolescents (59% female). Close to two thirds (65.4%) were white, 20.6% were black, 10.6% Hispanic, and 3.3% of other races or ethnicities. Eleven percent reported that a parent or parent’s partner received public assistance in the past year. Slightly under half (42.5%) lived with two biologic parents. At W1, participants’ average length of time since first intercourse was 20 months. More than two thirds (69.3%) reported using
Discussion
The current study, utilizing two waves of data from a nationwide sample of 7–11th-grade students, extends empirical understanding of adolescents’ dual method contraceptive use in several ways. Our findings suggest that sexually experienced adolescents’ contraceptive use levels and their contraceptive-related cognitions are moderately stable over 12–18 months’ time. Level of contraceptive use at most recent intercourse appears to be more stable over time among older teens than among younger
Acknowledgments
Funding for this research was provided by grants from NICHD (1R01 HD36868-01; Bearinger, PI), and from the CDC to the Healthy Youth Development - Prevention Research Center (#1-U48-DP-000063; Resnick, PI). This research uses data from Add Health, a program project designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from NICHD, with cooperative funding from 17 other agencies. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara
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