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HIV-related risk behaviors among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and school-based adolescents

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.150.2.324

The authors compared the responses of 76 adolescents on an inpatient psychiatric service with those of 802 school-based adolescents in the same city regarding HIV risk behaviors. The psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents reported a significantly higher rate of sexual and drug-related behaviors that involve a risk for contracting sexually transmitted disease, including HIV-related illnesses.

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