Parental supervision may help reduce the risk of some sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in black teenage girls, says a study in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

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Johns Hopkins researchers found that black teenage girls who had high levels of parental supervision had lower rates of gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections than girls with low levels of parental supervision.

The study included 158 girls, aged 14 to 19, recruited from two urban health clinics - one a public STI clinic and the other a hospital-based adolescent medicine clinic. Fewer than 20 percent of the girls' parents were married or living together.

Discussions ineffective
While high levels of parental supervision were linked with reduced levels of gonorrhoea and chlamydia infections, high levels of parental discussion about STIs were not, the study found.

"Parental involvement as a strategy for promoting protective behaviours among adolescents is increasingly a subject of research, and our results provide further evidence that interventions designed to increase parental involvement may affect not only adolescent behavior but disease acquisition as well," the study authors write. (HealthDayNews)
 

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