Citation

Laughon K, Gielen AC, Campbell JC, Burke J, McDonnell K, O'Campo PJ. Res. Nurs. Health 2007; 30(4): 413-428.

Affiliation

University of Virginia, School of Nursing, McLeod Hall, P.O. Box 800782, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0782.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/nur.20226

PMID

17654476

Abstract

This study was a secondary analysis of the relationships among lifetime experiences of violence, depressive symptoms, substance use, safer sex behaviors use, and past-year sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment among a sample of 445 low income, primarily African American women (257 HIV-, 188 HIV+) reporting a male intimate partner within the past year. Twenty-one percent of HIV- and 33% of HIV+ women reported past-year STI treatment. Violence victimization increased women's odds of past-year STI treatment, controlling for HIV status and age. Depressive symptoms increased, and use of safer sex behaviors decreased, women's odds of past-year STI treatment. Results suggest that positive assessment for violence and/or depression indicates need for STI screening.

Language: en