Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
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J Stud Alcohol Drugs · Jul 2014
Observational StudyTransactional sex involvement: exploring risk and promotive factors among substance-using youth in an urban emergency department.
The current study aims to evaluate individual, relational, and community-level risk and promotive factors for transactional sex involvement among substance-using youth. ⋯ Drug-using youth who reported recent transactional sex involvement are more likely to experience increased HIV risk, depressive symptoms, and negative peer influence and are less likely to experience the promotive factors of school involvement. Future research is needed to better understand the bidirectional relationship between transactional sex involvement and both risk and promotive factors at multiple ecological levels.