Youth Assets and Initiation of Sexual Intercourse by Family Structure: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.
Louisiana Montserrat SanchezRoy F OmanYueran YangTaylor LenschKristen Clements-NollePublished in: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education (2022)
The results suggest that strengthening specific youth assets across multiple dimensions of behavioral influence may decrease the risk of ISI for adolescents living in both one-parent and two-parent households. Public health efforts focused on developing programs to promote asset building tailored to adolescent's family structure are warranted.