National Survey of Adolescent Males
The purpose of the project is to improve understanding of longitudinal changes in relationship formation activity and risk behavior that lead to the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The study will examine data collected in a fourth wave of a unique longitudinal data set, the National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM). This survey, a nationally representative sample of 1,880 men who were 15 to 19 years old in 1988, has interviewed men three times already about their risky and protective sexual behaviors as well as relationship and parenthood transitions in 1988, 1990-1, and 1995. The fourth wave of data collection will take full-force in 2007. The specific aims of the project are: (1) to conduct a fourth round to determine the covariates and prevalence of behaviors among young men (32-37) that put them at risk of HIV/STD; (2) to describe the progression of risk behaviors across the life course a men move from adolescence into adulthood; (3) to examine factors associated with transitions into and out of high risk behaviors; and (4) to prepare a documented public use tape for the fourth round of data which can be linked to the previous waves of data.
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