Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 32-40 , February 2006

Why Are Young College Women Not Using Condoms? Their Perceived Risk, Drug Use, and Developmental Vulnerability May Provide Important Clues to Sexual Risk

  • Susan T. Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Susan T. Roberts, RN, PhD, Faculty, Licensed Vocational Nursing Program, Mira Costa College, One Barnard Drive, Oceanside, CA 92056-3899.
    • ,
  • Barbara L. Kennedy

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 This is from a study completed in 2004 and sponsored in part by a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant, California State University, Dominguez Hills 2004.

PII: S0883-9417(05)00248-7

doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2005.08.008

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