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We used data from adolescents (\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 1,803; age 13\u201317 years) who were recruited between April 2022 and June 2023 for the QuaranTeen Health study, an online, longitudinal survey assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sexual health. We used data from the baseline questionnaire to calculate weighted correlations between friend and family norms about masking and vaccination and adolescents\u2019 COVID-19 protective behaviors, defined as 1) participant masking in the past two weeks and 2) receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot. We used weighted logistic regression models to estimate associations between COVID-19-protective behaviors and sexual health-protective behaviors (i.e., condom use and hormonal contraception use at the most recent sex). We found that increased friend and family norms for COVID-19-protective behaviors were associated with participant masking (friends: \u03c1 = .40,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; .01; family: \u03c1 = .34,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; .01) and vaccine uptake (friends: \u03c1 = .40,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; .01; family: \u03c1 = .56,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; .01). Both behaviors were positively associated with condom use (masking: OR = 1.63, 95% CI = [1.05, 2.52]; vaccination: OR = 2.20, 95% CI = [1.32, 3.69]). Neither was associated with hormonal contraception use. Our findings suggest that family and friend norms for health-protective behaviors appear to be associated with health-protective behaviors among adolescents, at least when examining COVID-19-protective behaviors. 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