Innovative, Biosocial Approaches For Studying Behavioral, Mental, Physical And Reproductive Dimensions Of Adolescent Health: An Application To Substance Use And Unintended Pregnancy Risk

The Young Women’s Stress Study (YWSS), a longitudinal, community-based pilot study of young women in Georgia, takes a novel approach using biosocial theory and biodemographic methods to study interrelationships between behavioral, mental, physical and reproductive dimensions of adolescent health. Here, we take advantage of the comprehensive, integrated, repeated-measures design to explore the relationships between two timely public health priority indicators - substance use and unintended pregnancy risk, applying latent class modeling.