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Self-identified sexually active Chinese university students were recruited for the study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study found that most students used condoms inconsistently during sexual intercourse (54.8%), and logistic regression showed that condomless sex was associated with being raised by a single parent (AOR\u2009=\u20091.934, 95% CI 1.234\u20133.031) or by grandparents or others (AOR\u2009=\u20091.583, 95% CI 1.003\u20132.50) and with sometimes using dating apps (AOR\u2009=\u20091.496, 95% CI 1.106\u20132.024). The independent protective factors for condomless sex were HIV knowledge scores between 15 and 18 compared to scores of 0 to 4 (AOR\u2009=\u20090.434, 95% CI 0.244\u20130.771). Among sexually active university students, 15.5% reported that they had multiple sexual partners; having multiple sexual partners was associated with sometimes (AOR\u2009=\u20092.543, 95% CI 1.553\u20134.167) or always (AOR =4.048, 95% CI 2.177\u20137.527) using dating apps. Being female (AOR\u2009=\u20090.402, 95% CI 0.231\u20130.699) and in a relationship (AOR\u2009=\u20090.236, 95% CI 0.154\u20130.363) were protective factors against having multiple sexual partners.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>There is an urgent need to promote HIV prevention and to implement psychosocial interventions by providing comprehensive sex education and access to condoms and health care on campuses to decrease the potential factors related to unhealthy sexual behaviors among university students.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12889-021-11992-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,20]],"date-time":"2021-10-20T20:02:53Z","timestamp":1634760173000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Factors associated with unsafe sexual behavior among sexually active Chinese University students, Hebei Province, 2019"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Zhengjia","family":"Ren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuchu","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanhong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"11992_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Li G, Jiang Y, Zhang L. 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