标题：Factors Related to Youth Living with HIV Delaying Access to Care: The Role of Positive and Negative Social Network Influences on Health Seeking Behaviors
摘要：To explore factors related to youths' delay in seeking care after an HIV diagnosis. Multivariateanalyses were performed on 347 participants who were selected from a sample of 351adolescents participating in a 1994-1996 survey among youth in four U.S. metropolitan cities.Key findings were that participants with prosocial peer behaviors took longer (34 days) to seekcare than youth with poorer social engagement and excessive fibbing delayed seeking care (23days). Potentially important findings suggest being female, older, having close peer networks,conduct problems, and certain housing settings may delay seeking care. Multivariate regressionanalyses indicate that later entry into medical care was observed among those with close socialnetworks and behavioral characteristics related to delinquency
关键词：youth living with HIV; delay in seeking medical care; social support networks; negative and positive;social network influences on behavior
