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Journal of Adolescent Health | 2000

Impact of perceived parental monitoring on adolescent risk behavior over 4 years

Xiaoming Li; Bonita Stanton; Susan Feigelman

PURPOSE To determine the stability of perceived parental monitoring over time and its long-term effect on health risk behaviors among low-income, urban African-American children and adolescents. DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal follow-up (4 years). SUBJECTS A total of 383 African-American youth aged 9-15 years at baseline recruited from nine recreation centers serving three public housing communities in an Eastern city. OUTCOME MEASURES A six-item measure assessing perceived parental monitoring and an 11-item self-reported measure assessing unprotected sex, drug use, and drug trafficking were administered at baseline and at regular intervals over the subsequent 4 years. ANALYSIS Concordance was assessed by Pearson correlation coefficients at the level of scale and by kappa scores at the level of items. The association between the monitoring score and risk involvement was determined by stepwise multiple regression analysis including parental monitoring, age, gender, intervention status, and two-way interactions between parental monitoring and age, gender, intervention status as independent variables. RESULTS The perception of being monitored demonstrated consistency over time. Parental monitoring was inversely correlated with all three targeted risk behaviors cross-sectionally and prospectively. CONCLUSION These data provide evidence for an inverse relationship between perceived parental monitoring and risk involvement cross-sectionally and longitudinally. These data support the long-term effect of perceived parental monitoring on risk behaviors among urban, low-income African-American children and adolescents. Coupled with some evidence suggesting that directed interventions might be able to increase parental monitoring, this study provides a solid platform for reinforcing the importance of parental monitoring and directing intervention efforts at strengthening parental monitoring to reduce adolescent risk behaviors.


Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine | 2002

Longitudinal influence of perceptions of peer and parental factors on African American adolescent risk involvement

Bonita Stanton; Xiaoming Li; Robert P. Pack; Lesley Cottrell; Carole Harris; James Burns

To explore the long-term contributions of perceived peer and parental influences on adolescent risk and protective behaviors (sexual involvement, condom use, and drug use), we assessed self-reported behaviors and perceptions of peer risk involvement and parental supervision and communication among 383 low-income, urban African Americans aged 9 to 15 years at baseline over a 4-year, period. Baseline perceptions of peer sexual involvement were significantly associated with youth sexual behavior at baseline and were predictive of sexual involvement through all 4 years of follow-up. Perceived parental monitoring was inversely correlated with sexual involvement ment through 3 years of follow-up. Perceptions of peer condom use were associated with increased levels of condom use at baseline and through 6 months of follow-up. Positive parental communication was correlated with increased condom use. Drug use was higher among youths who perceived peers or family members to be using drugs and was inversely correlated with increased parental monitoring and supervision. Stepwise regression revealed peer and parental influences for all three behaviors. Perceptions of both peer and parental behaviors influence long-term risk and protective behaviors of adolescents. Therefore, parents should be included in adolescent riskreduction intervention efforts. Inclusion of friends and/or changing youth perceptions of peer involvement may also be effective intervention strategies.


Journal of Adolescent Health | 2001

Patterns of initiation of sex and drug-related activities among urban low-income African-American adolescents.

Xiaoming Li; Bonita Stanton; Lesley Cottrell; James Burns; Robert P. Pack; Linda Kaljee

PURPOSE To examine the pattern of adolescents involvement in drug-related behaviors and sexual initiation, and its relationship with: (a) age and gender, (b) sensation- seeking, (c) perceptions of peer and family risk involvement, and (d) involvement in high-risk sexual behavior. SUBJECTS Two hundred and sixty-one urban African-American youth, aged 9 to 15 years at baseline, who were sexually experienced by the end of the 4-year study interval. The longitudinal assessment (4 years) was focused on: (a) alcohol use, illicit drug use, and drug trafficking; (b) high-risk sex; (c) propensity to sensation seeking; and (d) perceived peer and family risk involvement. RESULTS Involvement increased over the 4-year study interval such that over half of the adolescents reported use of alcohol and/or use of marijuana in the final assessment period. For each of the three drug-related activities examined, the largest proportion of youth who engaged in sexual intercourse never engaged in drug-related activity, and the next largest proportion initiated sexual involvement before drug use. Sensation-seeking scores, which were relatively stable across time, were lower among girls, and also were lower among youth who remained uninvolved in drug-related behaviors. For all three drug-related behaviors, rates of high-risk sex were higher among youth who initiated both sex and drugs, and were lower among youth who reported engaging only in sex. Although youth who did eventually initiate drug use had higher perceived levels of family and peer drug use compared to those who remained uninvolved, these perceptions did not contribute directly to high-risk sexual behavior. CONCLUSIONS Youth who will become both sexually active and involved with drugs during adolescence are especially vulnerable to involvement in high-risk sexual behavior.


Journal of Early Adolescence | 1993

Perceptions of Sexual Behavior among Urban Early Adolescents Translating Theory through Focus Groups

Bonita Stanton; Maureen M. Black; Linda Kaljee; Izabel Ricardo

Risk activities for acquisition of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remain prevalent among urban adolescents. Early adolescents represent a particularly vulnerable group, exhibiting high rates of unprotected sexual activity. In spite of a growing recognition of the need to examine cultural, environmental, and developmental variables contributing to both risk and protective behaviors, little such research has been described to date. Guided by the constructs of a model of risk-protective behavior (Protection Motivation Theory) and employing ethnographic techniques, an exploration of the developmental, sociohistorical, and cultural constructs that might influence adolescent sexual behavior was conducted. Focus group and individual interviews were conducted among 64 inner-city youths, 10 to 14 years of age, and their parents. Findings relevant to perceptions of sexual behavior among young adolescents are presented. The methodology employed in this exploratory phase and the strengths and limitations of focus group discussions are discussed


Journal of Drug Issues | 2000

Injection Drug Use and Unprotected Sex among Institutionalized Drug Users in China

Xiaoming Li; Bonita Stanton; Yong Zhou

The current study was designed to examine injection drug use practices (injecting drugs and needle sharing) and unprotected sexual behaviors (multiple sexual partners, failure to use a condom) among drug users in China. Data were obtained from 833 institutionalized drug users in southwest China. More than two-thirds of the sample reported frequent intravenous or intramuscular drug-injection. Among injection drug users (IDUs), 78% shared needles. Compared to non-IDUs, IDUs who also shared needles had significantly higher rates of having multiple sexual partners (73% versus 54%, p<.001) and of never having used a condom (71% versus 56%, p<.01). The data in this study suggest that IDUs comprise a high-risk population for HIV infection in China and underscore the urgency for preventing injection drug use and unprotected sexual practices among drug users in China.


Journal of Adolescent Health | 1998

Drug trafficking and drug use among urban African-American adolescents: A causal analysis

Xiaoming Li; Susan Feigelman; Bonita Stanton; Jennifer Galbraith; Weihua Huang

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that involvement in drug trafficking leads to illicit drug use among urban African-American adolescents. METHODS Self-reports of substance use, illicit drug use, and drug trafficking were obtained at baseline and every 6 months for 24 months from 383 African-American early adolescents. Transitions between involvement in drug trafficking and illicit drug use over time were examined. Path analysis was conducted to examine the causal relation between drug trafficking and drug use. RESULTS Among the 35 youth who were initially involved only in drug trafficking, 22 (67%) subsequently used illicit drugs. Of the 53 youth who were initially involved only in illicit drug use, only 19 (42%) continued using drugs at later waves (p < 0.05). Path analysis revealed that baseline drug trafficking had a strong effect on subsequent drug trafficking and drug use, whereas baseline drug use did not have an effect on subsequent drug use or drug trafficking. CONCLUSIONS Initiation of drug trafficking by adolescents appears to lead to sustained involvement in drug-related activities, including continued drug trafficking and drug use. By contrast, initiation of drug use does not necessarily lead to continued involvement in drug-related behaviors.


Journal of Adolescent Health | 2003

Parental monitoring among adolescents in Beijing, China

Xiaoming Li; Xiaoyi Fang; Bonita Stanton; Lizeng Su; Ying Wu

Literature from Western nations has consistentlyimplicated parental monitoring (both communica-tion and supervision) as both a primary and asecondary protector against adolescent risk behavior[1–3]. The relationship between parental monitoringand adolescent risk involvement persists across eth-nic and racial groups [4,5]. The robustness of thisassociation in the United States is somewhat surpris-ing since parenting style differs significantly byculture [6–8]. One possible explanation for the con-sistency of the relationship in spite of difference inmonitoring style within the United States is thatthese subculture variations are comparatively minor.More substantial differences in the relationshipmight be found in different countries, particularlycountries with substantially different cultural heri-tages from those found with American’s “meltingpot.” Accordingly, we undertook examination of therelationship between perceived parental monitoringand adolescent risk involvement among a sample ofyouth in Beijing, China.


Aids Education and Prevention | 2011

AIDS knowledge and HIV stigma among children affected by HIV/AIDS in rural China.

Qun Zhao; Xiaoming Li; Guoxiang Zhao; Junfeng Zhao; Xiaoyi Fang; Xiuyun Lin; Bonita Stanton

The current study was designed to assess the level of AIDS knowledge and its relationship with personal stigma toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among children living in communities of high HIV prevalence in rural China. The data were collected in 2009 from 118 orphanage orphans (children who had lost both of their parents to HIV and living in AIDS orphanages), 299 family-cared orphans (children who had lost one or both of their parents to HIV and living with surviving parents or extended families), 326 vulnerable children (children who were living with HIV-infected alive parents), and 276 comparison children (children from the same community who did not experience HIV-related illness and death in their family). Children were asked to answer 20 questions of AIDS knowledge. A 10-item stigma scale was employed to assess childrens own attitude toward PLWHA. Both bivariate and multivariate tests were performed to answer our research questions. The data in the current study demonstrate a relatively low percent of correct AIDS knowledge (60%) among samples. The comparison children reported the best score of AIDS knowledge and orphanage orphans scored the lowest. The children with better AIDS knowledge have less personal stigma toward PLWHA. The findings in the current study suggest the need of appropriate education strategies to provide AIDS knowledge to children, particularly for HIV-affected children living in communities of high HIV prevalence in rural China.


Pediatrics | 2003

Sustaining and broadening intervention impact: a longitudinal randomized trial of 3 adolescent risk reduction approaches.

Ying Wu; Bonita Stanton; Jennifer Galbraith; Linda Kaljee; Lesley Cottrell; Xiaoming Li; Carole Harris; Dawn D'Alessandri; James Burns


World health and population | 2007

Profile of Female Sex Workers in a Chinese County: Does It Differ by Where They Came from and Where They Work?

Xiaoyi Fang; Xiaoming Li; Hongmei Yang; Yan Hong; Ran Zhao; Baiqing Dong; Wei Liu; Yuejiao Zhou; Shaoling Liang; Bonita Stanton

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Xiaoming Li

University of South Carolina

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Carole Harris

West Virginia University

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James Burns

West Virginia University

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Ying Wu

West Virginia University

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Xiaoyi Fang

Beijing Normal University

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