Original articlesUse of reproductive health services among young men, 1995
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Data
The 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM) is a national probability sample of 15- to 19-year-olds in the contiguous United States that oversampled black and Hispanic youth (17). Field staff screened 54,265 households across the country. Among all eligible males, the response rate was 75%; the rate was slightly higher among black youth. Sample weights were developed to account for probability of selection, nonresponse, and poststratification adjustments to correspond with 1995 Census
Descriptive findings
Most young men had not received any of the three reproductive health services under study (reproductive health discussion with medical professional, HIV test, or STD test) in the 12 months before the interview (Table 2). Less than one-third of all young men reported that they had talked to a doctor or nurse about one or more of the four reproductive health topics (preventing pregnancy, AIDS, other STDs, condoms) in the past 12 months. Almost half of the young men who reported having talked to a
Discussion
We found that the majority of teenage men had a physical examination in the previous 12 months. Despite this high level of medical contact, only a small minority of teenage males, including those who are sexually active, receive preventive reproductive health services. Despite recommendations from medical associations, reproductive health services are not yet a part of routine care visits for adolescent men. In the multivariate analysis, having a physical examination is significantly associated
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Emily Agree, Laura Duberstein Lindberg, Freya Sonenstein, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments, and Sean Williams and Carolyn Bradner for research assistantship.
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