Relationships between neighbourhood characteristics and current STI status among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women living in the Southern USA: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis.
Relationships between neighbourhood characteristics and current STI status among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women living in the Southern USA: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis.
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10.1136/sextrans-2016-052889
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发表时间：
2017-12
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Cooper HL
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Haley DF;Kramer MR;Adimora AA;Haardörfer R;Wingood GM;Ludema C;Rubtsova A;Hickson DA;Ross Z;Golub E;Bolivar H;Cooper HL
Neighbourhood characteristics (e.g., high poverty rates) are associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among HIV-uninfected women in the United States (US). However, no multilevel analyses investigating the associations between neighbourhood exposures and STIs have explored these relationships among women living with HIV infection. The objectives of this study were to: 1) examine relationships between neighbourhood characteristics and current STI status, and 2) investigate whether the magnitudes and directions of these relationships varied by HIV status in a predominantly HIV-infected cohort of women living in the southern US. This cross-sectional multilevel analysis tests relationships between census tract characteristics and current STI status utilizing data from 737 women enrolled at the Women's Interagency HIV Study's southern sites (530 HIV-infected and 207 HIV-uninfected women). Administrative data (e.g., US Census) described the census tract-level social disorder (e.g., violent crime rate) and social disadvantage (e.g., alcohol outlet density) where women lived. Participant-level data were gathered via survey. Testing positive for a current STI was defined as a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, or syphilis. Hierarchical generalized linear models were utilized to determine relationships between tract-level characteristics and current STI status, and to test whether these relationships varied by HIV status. Eleven percent of participants tested positive for at least one current STI. Greater tract-level social disorder (OR=1.34, 95% CI=0.99, 1.87) and social disadvantage (OR=1.34, 95% CI=0.96, 1.86) were associated with having a current STI. There was no evidence of additive or multiplicative interaction between tract-level characteristics and HIV status. Findings suggest that neighbourhood characteristics may be associated with current STIs among women living in the South, and that relationships do not vary by HIV status. Future research should establish the temporality of these relationships and explore pathways through which neighbourhoods create vulnerability to STIs.
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