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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Unemployment and sexual risk-taking among adolescents

Anne Hammarström

Department of Family Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Correspondence address: Anne Hammarström Department of Family Medicine Umeå University SE-901 85 Umeå Sweden Tel: +46 90 10 35 47 Fax +46 90 77 68 83 E-mail: anne.hammarstrom{at}fammed.umu.se.

Urban Janlert

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Sexual risk-taking can lead to serious consequences. This study addressed the question of how sexual risk-taking was influenced by unemployment. A cohort of 1060 adolescents were followed from their last term in compulsory, school and five years ahead until the age of 21. Sexual risk-taking, defined as unprotected intercourse without wishing to conceive, was studied with the help of a questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of the period. For men there was a positive correlation between the length of unemployment and increase in risk-taking during the period, but for women there was a (statistically non-significant) negative correlation. In a logistic regression analysis, having children also had a significant effect on increased risk-taking among men. Unemployment thus implies increased sexual risk-taking among adolescent men.

Key Words: unemployment • sexual risk-taking • adolescents • longitudinal

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 25, No. 4, 266-270 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/140349489702500409
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