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Creator:: Pedersen, Peggy Jo
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was three fold: 1) to determine if false consensus effects would be found for estimates of sexual behaviors, 2) to determine the directional accuracy of consensus estimates for subscribers and nonsubscribers and 3) to determine if the degree of accuracy of those estimates was influenced...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sexual practices AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Peggy Jo Pedersen for the degree of Doctor of

Creator:: Kandathil, Sonia M.
Abstract:: With women comprising nearly 50% of HIV/AIDS infections globally, the development of new woman-initiated HIV prevention methods has become a public health imperative. To date, the female condom and the diaphragm are the only woman-initiated prevention methods available on the consumer market. Recent research has focused on two HIV/AIDS prevention...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: microbicides were more likely to intend to use microbicides. Women with ≤ grade 12 education, greater sexual

Creator:: Mitchell, Jason W.
Abstract:: Recent estimates indicate that over 50% of gay men acquire HIV from their main sexual partners while in their relationship (Sullivan et al., 2009). Despite this statistic, the majority of research has focused on individual factors as predictors of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) and not on relationship factors. The few...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: April 28, 2010. Title: Examining the Role of Relationship Characteristics and Dynamics on Sexual

Creator:: Nelson, Heather A.
Abstract:: Approximately half of the 6.4 million pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended (Finer & Henshaw, 2006). Unintended pregnancies, defined as pregnancies not wanted at the time conception occurs, regardless of contraceptive use (Chandra, Martinez, Mosher, Abma, & Jones, 2005) can have serious repercussions on women, children,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , birth control method failure, or sexual assault, have had no choices outside of abortion. Since 1997

Creator:: Cahn, Megan A.
Abstract:: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have more negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. Little is known, however, about the factors that lead to sexual and reproductive health disparities for AIANs, including the role of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). Logistic regression analyses were performed on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

Creator:: Hijazi, Heba Hesham
Abstract:: Jordan has a higher fertility rate (3.8) than the averages of countries similar in income to Jordan (2.2) and compared to the Middle East and North Africa region as a whole (2.8) (WHO, WB, UNICEF, & DHS, 2011). The findings of the 2009 Jordanian Population and Family Health Survey demonstrated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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