Severely Mentally Ill Women’s HIV Risk: The Influence of Social Support,Substance Use,and Contextual Risk Factors |
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Authors: | Mary E Randolph Steven D Pinkerton Anton M Somlai Jeffrey A Kelly Timothy L McAuliffe Richard H Gibson Kristin Hackl |
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Affiliation: | (1) Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA;(2) Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
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Abstract: | In structured interviews with 96 women with severe mental illness, nearly two-thirds had not used condoms during sexual intercourse
in the past 3 months, more than two-thirds had sex with multiple partners, and almost one-third had been treated for a sexually
transmitted infection (STI) in the past year. Women who reported fewer sexual risk context factors, such as having sex with
someone the participant did not know or transactional sex, had fewer sexual partners. Larger social support networks were
associated with less frequent sex after drug use. In turn, women who less often had sex after using drugs had unprotected
intercourse less frequently.
Mary E. Randolph, Steven D. Pinkerton, Anton M. Somlai, Jeffrey A. Kelly, Timothy L. McAuliffe, and Kristin Hackl are affiliated
with Center for AIDS Intervention Research, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA.
Richard H. Gibson is affiliated with Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI USA. |
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Keywords: | sexual risk behavior HIV/AIDS serious mental illness women’ s health |
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