Male and female rural probationers: HIV risk behaviors and knowledge
Male and female rural probationers: HIV risk behaviors and knowledge
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DOI：
10.1080/02652040500200491
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发表时间：
2006-05-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Cosentino, AL
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作者：
Oser, CB;Leukefeld, CG;Cosentino, AL
刑事司法系统所涉人员感染艾滋病毒的风险很大，艾滋病发病率也很高。在社区监督下的罪犯，如缓刑犯，比囚犯有更多的机会从事高风险行为。此外，农村地区的缓刑犯面临风险，因为农村地区采取减少艾滋病毒风险的方法可能较慢。因此，本研究的主要目的是描述800名农村重罪缓刑犯的HIV危险行为和HIV知识水平。双变量结果表明，男性有更大的犯罪历史，并从事更多的物质使用的风险行为比女性。总的来说，避孕套的使用很少，而且不一致，但性别之间没有显著差异。性别差异普遍认为艾滋病毒的知识，与女性报告高水平的艾滋病毒知识。多变量模型不支持这一假设，即感知知识将是一个更强大的相关性的分数对艾滋病毒风险行为知识测试男性比女性。结果表明，农村居民不受保护，从事艾滋病毒的危险行为和未来的研究应检查性别差异的感知和实际的艾滋病毒知识的罪犯在社区监督。
Individuals involved in the criminal justice system are at substantial risk for HIV infection and have elevated rates of AIDS. Offenders under community supervision, such as probationers, have substantially more opportunities to engage in high-risk behaviors than prisoners. Furthermore, probationers in rural areas are at risk because rural areas may be slower to adopt HIV risk-reduction approaches. Consequently, the primary goal of this study is to describe the HIV risk behaviors and level of HIV knowledge of 800 rural felony probationers. Bivariate results indicate that males have substantially greater criminal histories and engage in more substance use risk behaviors than females. Overall, there was minimal and inconsistent use of condoms, but there were no significant differences by gender. Gender differences prevailed in perceived HIV knowledge, with females reporting high levels of perceived HIV knowledge. Multivariate models did not support the hypothesis that perceived knowledge would be a more robust correlate of scores on the HIV Risk Behavior Knowledge Test for males than females. Results suggest that rural residents are not protected from engaging in HIV risk behaviors and future studies should examine gender discrepancies between perceived and actual HIV knowledge among offenders under community supervision.