The Determinants of Sexual Intercourse Before Age 16 Years Among Rural Jamaican Adolescents

Individual and family factors have been hypothesized to influence adolescent sexual behavior, but the extent to which this is true for adolescents in Jamaica as a whole and for those in rural areas in particular, has not been well studied. The objective of this study was to identify individual and f...

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Main Authors: Olaniyi J. Ekundayo, Joana Dodson-Stallworth, Michele Roofe, Inmaculada B. Aban, Laura H. Bachmann, Mirjam C. Kempf, John Ehiri, Pauline E. Jolly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2007-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.94