Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of North Carolina, "The purpose of this meta-analysis was to synthesize the growing body of research linking adolescents' sexual communication to condom use, and to examine several moderators of this association. A total of 41 independent effect sizes from 34 studies with 15,046 adolescent participants (M-age = 16.8, age range = 12-23) were meta-analyzed. Results revealed a weighted mean effect size of the sexual communication-condom use relationship of r = .24, which was statistically heterogeneous (Q = 618.86, p< .001, I-2 = 93.54). Effect sizes did not differ significantly by gender, age, recruitment setting, country of study, or condom measurement timeframe; however, communicationtopic and communication format were statistically significant moderators (p < .001).