Sexual Behaviors and Drug Use among Youth in Dropout- Prevention Programs--Miami, 1994

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Sexual Behaviors and Drug Use among Youth in Dropout- Prevention Programs--Miami, 1994

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (12/02/94) Vol. 43, No. 47, P. 873
O'Hara, P.; Messick, B.J.; Kennedy, M.G. et al

To estimate the prevalence of risk behaviors among potential dropouts, researchers from the University of Miami School of Medicine surveyed students in two Miami dropout-prevention programs (schools A and B) and compared the responses to those from a survey of Miami public schools. In general, prevalences of specific risk behaviors were higher among students from the dropout prevention programs than among the public school students. At 29.8 percent, school A students had a higher prevalence of a report of previous sexually transmitted disease (STD) or HIV/AIDS diagnosis than school B students (0) and public school students (4.4 percent). School A students also had a higher rate of injection drug use. While only 13.5 percent of the public school students reported having used drugs or alcohol before their last sexual intercourse, 33.3 percent and 23.4 percent of respondents from schools A and B, respectively, said they had done so. The editors of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report suggest that STD/HIV prevention-service providers consider developing more intensive disease prevention programs targeted at students at risk for dropping out of school, risk levels of students in such programs be assessed, and prevention programming be tailored to the diverse needs of the students populations at risk.

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