Citation

Tucker JS, Wenzel SL, Elliott MN, Hambarsoomians K. J. Health Psychol. 2006; 11(5): 697-710.

Affiliation

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90407, USA. joan_tucker@rand.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105306066625

PMID

16908467

Abstract

This study investigated associations of substance use, relationship abuse and HIV self-protective behavior with unprotected sex among 290 impoverished women with a non-cohabitating primary partner. Unprotected sex was associated with having a physically or psychologically abusive partner among low-income housed women, and having an abusive partner who also drank to intoxication among women living in shelters. Indicators of HIV self-protective behavior were associated with less frequent unprotected sex among sheltered women, even after accounting for abuse and substance use within the relationship. Results suggest the need for HIV-prevention interventions to address the problems of partner substance use and relationship abuse.

Language: en