Brookmeyer Kathryn A, Henrich Christopher C
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
J Prim Prev. 2009 Nov;30(6):677-96. doi: 10.1007/s10935-009-0196-6.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors aimed to describe the pathways of risk within sexual risk taking, alcohol use, and delinquency, and then identify how the trajectory of sexual risk is linked to alcohol use and delinquency. Risk trajectories were measured with adolescents aged 15-24 years (N = 1,778). Using Latent Class Growth Analyses (LCGA), models indicated that the majority of adolescents engaged in sexual risk and alcohol use. In joint trajectory analyses, LCGA revealed six risk taking classes: sex and alcohol, moderate risk taking, joint risk taking, moderate alcohol, alcohol risk, and alcohol and delinquency experimentation. Editors' Strategic Implications: School administrators and curriculum designers should pay attention to the study's findings with respect to the need for prevention programs to target early adolescents and integrate prevention messages about alcohol use and sexual risk taking.
作者利用全国青少年纵向调查的数据，旨在描述性风险行为、饮酒和犯罪行为中的风险路径，然后确定性风险轨迹如何与饮酒和犯罪行为相关联。对15至24岁的青少年（N = 1778）进行了风险轨迹测量。使用潜在类别增长分析（LCGA），模型表明大多数青少年存在性风险行为和饮酒行为。在联合轨迹分析中，LCGA揭示了六种风险行为类别：性与酒精、中度风险行为、联合风险行为、中度饮酒、酒精风险以及酒精与犯罪行为实验。编辑的战略启示：学校管理人员和课程设计师应关注该研究的结果，即预防项目需要针对青少年早期，并整合有关饮酒和性风险行为的预防信息。
