Correlates of Condom Use Among Substance Using Older Seropositive MSM: Implications for Mental Health Practice
| Autor: | Christopher Lance Coleman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Mental Health Services Safe Sex Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Substance-Related Disorders media_common.quotation_subject HIV Infections Pleasure law.invention Heroin Developmental psychology Condoms 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Condom Safer sex law medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Homosexuality Male Mental health nursing Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Aged 030505 public health virus diseases Middle Aged Mental health Self Concept Pshychiatric Mental Health Substance use 0305 other medical science Psychology Demography medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Issues in mental health nursing. 37(10) |
| ISSN: | 1096-4673 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to describe the correlates of condom use among a sample of N = 60 substance using seropositive men who have sex with (MSM). The mean age of the study participants was 52 ranging 50–75 years of age. Seventy-percent of study participants reporting smoking marijuana, 62% using cocaine, 25% heroin, 37% alcohol, and 30% amphetamines. Among those reporting substance use, 75% reported it was a hassle to use condoms, 42% indicated pleasure decreased with condom use, 72% indicated safer sex is boring, 72% reported the idea of using condoms is unappealing, 78% reported condoms ruined sex, and 71% said condoms interfered with romance. A multiple logistic regression analysis revealed low self-esteem, relationship status, attitudes towards condom use, and depression predicted condom use χ2 = 20.79, df = 6, ρ =.002. The study findings have implications for mental health nursing practice with seropositive African American MSM. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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