Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:324-325
Copyright © 1993 by American Psychiatric Association
HIV-related risk behaviors among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and school-based adolescents
RJ DiClemente and LE Ponton
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.
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.