Personal and Financial Risk Typologies Among Women Who Engage in Sex Work in Mongolia: A Latent Class Analysis.
Personal and Financial Risk Typologies Among Women Who Engage in Sex Work in Mongolia: A Latent Class Analysis.
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在蒙古从事性工作的女性中的个人和财务风险类型：潜在阶级分析。
DOI：
10.1007/s10508-016-0824-1
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发表时间：
2017-08
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Witte SS
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作者：
Offringa R;Tsai LC;Aira T;Riedel M;Witte SS
在全世界，尤其是在低收入和中等收入国家，从事性工作的妇女承受着不成比例的艾滋病毒感染负担。对促进预防和治疗方案感兴趣的利益攸关方面临挑战，以有效和有效地针对不同性别的妇女群体。这个问题特别困难，因为几乎不可能知道这些群体是如何先验组成的。虽然根据个人变量(例如年龄或招揽工作地点)进行分组可以描述从事性工作的妇女样本，但选择这些变量需要对人群有很强的直觉理解。此外，这种方法很难量化，而且有可能强化先入为主的观念，而不是产生新的信息。我们的目标是调查从事性工作的女性群体。这些数据是从蒙古乌兰巴托的204名妇女样本中收集的，这些妇女被推荐进行艾滋病毒预防干预。根据个人和财务风险因素，使用潜在类别分析创建性工作妇女的亚组。这项分析发现了三个潜在的类别，代表了个人和金融风险的独特反应模式。目前的研究以一种新的、更具经验性的方式处理类型学研究，并提供了对不同亚群的描述，这些亚群可能对艾滋病毒风险干预做出不同的反应。
Women engaged in sex work bear a disproportionate burden of HIV infection worldwide, particularly in low to middle income countries. Stakeholders interested in promoting prevention and treatment programs are challenged to efficiently and effectively target heterogeneous groups of women. This problem is particularly difficult because it is nearly impossible to know how those groups are composed a priori. Although grouping based on individual variables (e.g., age or place of solicitation) can describe a sample of women engaged in sex work, selecting these variables requires a strong intuitive understanding of the population. Furthermore, this approach is difficult to quantify and has the potential to reinforce preconceived notions, rather than generate new information. We aimed to investigate groupings of women engaged in sex work. The data were collected from a sample of 204 women who were referred to an HIV prevention intervention in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Latent Class Analysis was used to create subgroups of women engaged in sex work, based on personal and financial risk factors. This analysis found three latent classes, representing unique response pattern profiles of personal and financial risk. The current study approached typology research in a novel, more empirical way and provided a description of different subgroups, which may respond differently to HIV risk interventions.