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Sexual Risk and Protective Factors: Executive Summary

Factors Affecting Teen Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, Childbearing and Sexually Transmitted Disease: Which Are Important? Which Can You Change?

by Douglas Kirby, Gina Lepore & J. Ryan
September 2005, 17 pp.

In order to reduce the still high rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, it is important to address two primary questions:

What factors influence adolescents' decisions about sex?
Which of these factors can be altered?

By identifying and targeting those factors that both affect adolescents' decisions about sex and can be changed by interventions, the chances of reducing sexual risk-taking among teens are greatly improved. This new paper provides an exhaustive analysis of the more than 400 factors that can affect teen sexual behavior.

This was developed as part of the project Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Sexual Risk-taking Behaviors.

Funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via contract with National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy).

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