HIV Risk Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic: The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs.
HIV Risk Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic: The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs.
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DOI：
10.1177/1545109711419264
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发表时间：
2011-11-01
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McCarthy, Katharine
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Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent;Jaccard, James;McCarthy, Katharine
多米尼加共和国与艾滋病毒有关的现有文献往往忽视旅游区的独特作用，因为旅游区是促进性危险行为，特别是艾滋病毒脆弱性和传播的独特生态环境。此外，对居住在旅游区附近的多米尼加青少年的关注有限，由于多米尼加共和国旅游业的发展，他们越来越容易酗酒。虽然之前对酒精对青春期性风险行为影响的分析大多集中在酒精对判断和决策的短暂影响上，但长期饮酒对性行为的影响一直是一个被忽视的研究领域。我们的研究探索了长期饮酒、亲子关系、自尊等情感因素和性行为意图之间的关系。我们在旅游区的背景下审查了上述因素，旅游区代表了酒精供应和消费以及艾滋病毒风险的独特生态。我们讨论了开发以家庭为基础的实用项目的意义，以针对多米尼加青少年酒精使用和高酒精暴露旅游区的性危险行为。
Existing literature related to HIV in the Dominican Republic has tended to neglect the unique role of tourism areas as distinct ecologies facilitative of sexual risk behavior, particularly HIV vulnerability and transmission. Furthermore, limited attention has focused on Dominican adolescents living in close proximity to tourism areas who have become increasingly exposed to alcohol due to the expanding tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. While most previous analyses of the effects of alcohol on adolescent sexual risk behavior have focused on the transient effects of alcohol on judgment and decision making, the effects of chronic alcohol use on sexual behavior has been a neglected area of research. Our study explores the relationship between chronic alcohol use, the parent-adolescent relationship, affective factors such as self-esteem, and intentions to engage in sex. We examine the above factors within the context of tourism areas which represent a unique ecology of alcohol availability and consumption and HIV risk. We discuss implications for developing applied family-based programs to target Dominican adolescent alcohol use and sexual risk behavior in tourism areas of high alcohol exposure.