PROBLEM: Unprotected sex puts women at greater risk for unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, yet there has been a gap in research involving condom use of women during their college years.
METHODOLOGY: Miriam Hospital researchers led by Jennifer Walsh recruited 279 first-year female college students and asked them to submit monthly reports on their use of condoms. To uncover possible predictors of unsafe behavior, they also included questions about participants’ high school GPA, religious beliefs, parents’ education levels, and whether they had smoked marijuana or engaged in binge drinking during the month before they entered college.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/study-of-the-day-womens-use-of-condoms-dwindles-in-college/253895/