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- Document 0218
- DOCN M9620218
- TI Predictors of maintained high-risk behaviors among impoverished women.
- DT 9602
- AU Nyamathi AM; Bennett C; Leake B; School of Nursing, University of
- California at Los Angeles; 90095-6918, USA.
- SO Public Health Rep. 1995 Sep-Oct;110(5):600-6. Unique Identifier :
- AIDSLINE MED/96073584
- AB The researchers sought to explore and describe the demographic,
- cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioral factors associated with the
- continued risky behavior of a convenience sample of homeless and
- drug-addicted women two to four weeks after they had completed an AIDS
- education program. The sample included 942 crack users and 767 women who
- had multiple sex partners. Analyses revealed that impoverished women who
- maintained multiple sexual partners were less likely to be in drug
- recovery programs than in homeless shelters. They were more likely to
- share needles and be involved sexually with male injection drug users
- compared with impoverished women who did not maintain multiple sexual
- partners. Persistent crack users were older than those who reported
- cessation of crack use, were more often African American, and were more
- likely to have sex partners who were injecting drug users. Women who
- demonstrated less improvement in depression and distress scores,
- concerns, use of affective coping, appraisal of threat, and social
- support were more likely to maintain crack use and multiple partners.
- The study's implications for the design of intervention programs aimed
- at risk reduction based on ethnicity are discussed.
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL Adult *Crack
- Cocaine Female *Health Behavior Health Education/*ORGANIZATION &
- ADMIN Homeless Persons/PSYCHOLOGY Human *Poverty Predictive Value of
- Tests Program Evaluation Racial Stocks *Risk-Taking Substance
- Dependence/COMPLICATIONS/PSYCHOLOGY/*REHABILITATION Support, U.S.
- Gov't, P.H.S. CLINICAL TRIAL JOURNAL ARTICLE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED
- TRIAL
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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