Research published in ‘Children and Youth Services Review’
PhD student Danielle R. Phillips (in photo) and UMB alumnus Dr. Elizabeth Aparicio were published in Children and Youth Services Review. The article is titled “ ‘She was there through the whole process:’ Exploring how homeless youth access and select birth control.”
Homeless female adolescents in the United States have disproportionately high rates of pregnancy compared to youth in the general population. Little is known about how homeless youth decide whether to use birth control and which birth control method to select. The current study explores how homeless female youth participating in a holistic sexual health program called Wahine (“woman”) Talk experience this process, using data from in-depth interviews (N = 3) with 11 homeless adolescent girls.