Gambling and Sexual Behaviour in Adolescents Studied

Many youths tend to get involved in high-risk behaviours that have adverse consequences during their late adolescence period. Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University studied the degree to which two such behaviors, adolescent sexual behaviors and gambling, affected African American youth in nine primary schools in Baltimore, MD. In data collected from a cohort study, they assessed whether certain adolescent sexual behaviors ...