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Article: Risky sexual activity reducing methods equally effective across all teens.
- Article from:
- Asian News International
- Article date:
- December 3, 2008
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Byline: ANI
Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Interventions aimed at reducing sexual activity is equally effective in teens indulging in risky health behaviours as it is in vigilant peers, says a new study.
Usually, it is believed that teens with risky behaviour have a higher tendency to engage in sexual activity than more cautious adolescents, but the interventions have almost the same result in both high-risk and low-risk teens.
Irrespective of their level on the risk spectrum, teens seemed positively influenced by intervention messages in the 1990s and early 2000s, when there was a decline in sexual experience and number of sexual partners across ...