Gender differences in behavioural and psychosocial predictors of HIV testing and return for test results in a high-risk population
| Autor: | Judith A. Stein, Adeline Nyamathi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Social Psychology Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Health Behavior Psychological intervention Social support Sex Factors Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Risk Factors Perception Medicine Humans education Substance Abuse Intravenous Poverty media_common Aged education.field_of_study Models Statistical business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health AIDS Serodiagnosis Social Support Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care medicine.disease Self Concept Test (assessment) Risk perception Ill-Housed Persons Female business Psychosocial Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Stein, JA; & Nyamathi, A. (2000). Gender differences in behavioural and psychosocial predictors of HIV testing and return for test results in a high-risk population. AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV, 12(3), 343-356. doi: 10.1080/09540120050043007. UC Irvine: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8zk7z206 |
| ISSN: | 0954-0121 |
| Popis: | We assessed gender differences in psychosocial and behavioural predictors of HIV testing and returning for results in a high-risk sample of 1,049 predominately minority, impoverished, homeless and/or drug-abusing women (n = 621) and men (n = 428). Predictors included latent variables representing injection drug use, self-esteem, social support, AIDS knowledge, poor access to health services, perceived risk for AIDS, sexual risk behaviour and the mediators of positive and negative coping styles. Significant predictors of test and return for women included injection drug use, greater social support, more AIDS knowledge, a higher perceived risk for AIDS and a positive coping style. Significant predictors for the men included injection drug use, greater AIDS knowledge, a higher perceived risk for AIDS and a positive coping style. Although greater social support was not significant for the men, the significant predictors of HIV testing and return were generally similar for the men and women. However, the men evaluated their risk of AIDS significantly lower than the women, although they reported more sexual risk behaviours and equally risky injection drug use behaviours. Results suggest that interventions designed to increase AIDS knowledge, to raise the perception of risk and to promote a positive coping style would be effective in encouraging more HIV testing for both men and women, but raising perceptions of what constitutes personal risk behaviours may need special emphasis when delivering prevention programmes to men. |
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