Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis

safe sex among those in this sample. Age was statistically significant and reveals that
with each additional year of age, there is an increasing likelihood that the respondent will
have a lower proportion of partners with whom he discusses safe sex prior to sex or
engages in safe sex by 0.8% per year of advancing age.
The coefficient of determination indicates that 11.3% of the variation in
proportion of sex partners with whom the respondent discussed safe-sex before sex or
engaged in safe sex is accounted for by the variation in (a) whether health care providers
were a primary source of safe-sex information, (b) whether church was a primary source
of safe-sex information, (c) drug use, and (d) age.
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