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| Daniel WightSummaryAffiliation: University of Glasgow Country: UK Publications
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Extent of regretted sexual intercourse among young teenagers in Scotland: a cross sectional surveyD Wight
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
BMJ 320:1243-4. 2000..In addition, making teenagers aware of potential emotional and relationship consequences of early sexual intercourse may delay first intercourse...- Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trialDaniel Wight
Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow G12 8RZ
BMJ 324:1430. 2002..To determine whether a theoretically based sex education programme for adolescents (SHARE) delivered by teachers reduced unsafe sexual intercourse compared with current practice... 
Parental influences on young people's sexual behaviour: a longitudinal analysisDaniel Wight
Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
J Adolesc 29:473-94. 2006..A lot of spending money also predicts early sexual activity and, for males, having more sexual partners. Comfort talking with parents about sex, however, seems to bear little relationship to sexual behaviour...- Contradictory sexual norms and expectations for young people in rural Northern TanzaniaDaniel Wight
Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:987-97. 2006..This almost certainly contributes to their short duration and the high levels of partner change, since relationships are not reinforced through social recognition and there is little scope to develop intimacy through non-sexual contacts... - What explains between-school differences in rates of smoking?Marion Henderson
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
BMC Public Health 8:218. 2008..This paper examines whether these school characteristics (which include a measure of quality of social relationships) can account for school differences in smoking rates... - Heterosexual risk behaviour among young teenagers in ScotlandMarion Henderson
Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
J Adolesc 25:483-94. 2002..The most important correlate of sexual experience was low level of parental monitoring; the key predictor for condom use was whether or not the respondent talked to their partner about protection before having sexual intercourse... - Do sexual health services encourage teenagers to use condoms? A longitudinal studyAlison Parkes
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 31:271-80. 2005..This study investigated whether 15/16-year-olds who attended sexual health services used condoms more and had different beliefs about condoms compared to those who did not use these services... - Comparison of teenagers' early same-sex and heterosexual behavior: UK data from the SHARE and RIPPLE studiesAlison Parkes
Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, UK
J Adolesc Health 48:27-35. 2011.... - What explains between-school differences in rates of sexual experience?Marion Henderson
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
BMC Public Health 8:53. 2008..It then examined whether these residuals, or 'school effects', were attributable to processes within the school, or were more likely to reflect characteristics of the neighbourhood... - Retaining young people in a longitudinal sexual health survey: a trial of strategies to maintain participationMarion Henderson
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
BMC Med Res Methodol 10:9. 2010..This paper describes a trial of incentives to retain longitudinal survey cohorts from ages 16 to 20, to question them on the sensitive topic of sexual health... 
Self-reported sexually transmitted infection testing behaviour amongst incarcerated young male offenders: findings from a qualitative studyKatie Buston
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 36:7-11. 2010..Here we describe young men's self-reported STI testing behaviour, and explore why testing is and is not sought in two locales: the community and the Young Offender Institute (YOI)...- Implementation of a teacher-delivered sex education programme: obstacles and facilitating factorsKatie Buston
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK
Health Educ Res 17:59-72. 2002..The lessons learned may be useful for those involved in designing and/or implementing other teacher-delivered school-based health promotion initiatives... - Exposure to smoking in films and own smoking among Scottish adolescents: a cross-sectional studyKate Hunt
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ Scotland, UK
Thorax 66:866-74. 2011..However, the only study to date in the UK to test for an association showed no relation between film-smoking exposure and smoking among young adults... - How a masculine work ethic and economic circumstances affect uptake of HIV treatment: experiences of men from an artisanal gold mining community in rural eastern UgandaGodfrey E Siu
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
J Int AIDS Soc 15:1-9. 2012.... - A qualitative study of HPV vaccine acceptability among health workers, teachers, parents, female pupils, and religious leaders in northwest TanzaniaPieter Remes
Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Vaccine 30:5363-7. 2012..As human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines become available in developing countries, acceptability studies can help to better understand potential barriers and facilitators of HPV vaccination and guide immunisation programs... - Dusty discos and dangerous desires: community perceptions of adolescent sexual and reproductive health risks and vulnerability and the potential role of parents in rural Mwanza, TanzaniaPieter Remes
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Glasgow, UK
Cult Health Sex 12:279-92. 2010..Parents acknowledged the multiple influences on sexual risk behaviour. They expressed a need for knowledge and skills related to parenting so that they can address these influences both through family- and community-based strategies... - Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort StudyAlison Parkes
MRC CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK
Arch Dis Child 98:341-8. 2013..Most research is from North America and focuses on television. Few longitudinal studies have compared the effects of TV and electronic games, or have investigated gender differences... - Teenagers' use of sexual health services: perceived need, knowledge and ability to accessAlison Parkes
Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 30:217-24. 2004..This paper presents the first UK large-scale quantitative analysis of these factors, comparing those who use services with those who do not...