Abstract
The author and colleagues examined campus resources for gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) students at 119 US colleges to determine how the presence of such resources affected sexually active students' condom use. A random sample of unmarried, sexually active college students surveyed in 1999 completed questionnaires. Condom use was compared across schools with different levels of GLB resources. Condom use rates, analyzed by sex and sex-partner groups, ranged from 32% to 52%. With additional college variables controlled for, GLB resources were positively associated with the proportion of sexually active students who used condoms (p <.001). This association existed primarily for students with only opposite-sex partners. The author's findings suggest that campus resources for GLB students may be associated with college students' condom use.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 109-116 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of the American College Health Association |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s Lesbian Health Fund provided support for this research. The author received additional support from grant #U48/CCU5 1333 1 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; grant 5-T7 1 -MC00006-24 Leadership Education in Adolescent Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources and Services Administration. We also wish to thank Dr Henry Wechsler for use of the College Alcohol Study data and assistance with this project; Drs Glorian Sorensen, Lisa Berkman, and Michael Resnick for their mentorship and thoughtful reviews of this article; and Drs Hang Lee and Stephen Gilman for their generous assistance with analyses.
Keywords
- Condom use
- Homosexuality
- Sexual behavior
- Social environment
