Patterns of age differences between sexual partners - "age-mixing" - may partially explain the magnitude of HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence of age-disparity as a risk factor for HIV remains mixed. We used data from a socio-centric study of sexual behaviour in Malawi to quantify the age-mixing pattern and to find associations between relationship characteristics and age di...

Evaluation of child sexual abuse often necessitates interviewing children about genital touch, yet little scientific research exists on how best to obtain children's reports of genital contact. To examine this issue, 72 five- and seven-year-old girls experienced a standardized medical checkup. For half of the children, the checkup included a vaginal and anal examination (genital condition); for...

the purpose of the present study was to examine differences in lifestyle factors such as physical activity among homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, and heterosexual korean adolescents.the sample consisted of 74,186 adolescents from grades 7-12 (ages 12-18) who participated in the 8(th) annual korea youth risk behavior web-based survey in 2012. of this sample, only 11,829 provided enough inf...

Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching communication skills and sexual difference (sexual knowledge) on marital satisfaction in couples referred to the Mashhad city Health Center, Iran. Methods: In This Quazi-experimental study, with pre test and post-test methods, 25 coups who referred to a Mashhad city health center, were randomly selected. Enrich marital sa...

The central concern of this paper is to illustrate how certain dimensions of job,s are helpful in determining whether individuals have comparable positions in the work setting. We consider the usefulness of including certain aspects of power in the work setting into studies of stratification. The two aspects o~ power in the work setting considered here are authority, control over the work proce...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of project respect in reducing sexual risk behaviors of male to female transgender patients. methods: in an interventional, quasi-experimental and case-control study, 30 transgenderpatients (male to female) with high-risk sexual behaviors were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. transgender...