SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HIV RISK--WOMEN OFFENDERS IN RECOVERY

除了减少危害的方法外，药物的联合过程-- 免费治疗和康复是降低艾滋病毒风险的一项重要战略 对于注射毒品和从事危险性行为的女性。这个 拟议研究的前提是戒毒康复直接减少 注射吸毒和吸毒，并间接降低性行为风险 行为。此外，社会支持--定义为“由以下机构提供的资源 其他“--对维持戒毒康复和影响至关重要 减少艾滋病毒风险行为的采用和持续实践 时间到了。这项研究的目的是：(1)纵向记录 对前妇女的社会支持的来源、类型、数量和质量 戒毒后头七个月内的违法者； (二)对各类社会组织的功能进行民族志评估 与减少艾滋病毒风险行为有关的支持；(3)审查 HIV/AIDS各种行为指标之间的相互关系 HIV危险行为、社会支持、药物的风险降低和措施 治疗和个人特征(包括艾滋病毒血清状况， 心理特征和人口统计学)以及这些方面的变化 随时间推移的关系；(4)开发预测艾滋病毒相关的模型 已被强制服刑的女性有前科人员的降低风险行为 药物综合研究成果并推荐艾滋病毒干预措施 战略。为了达到这些目标，拟议的研究将进行 与最近承认吸毒的女性(N-600)进行基线访谈 在监狱/监狱和以社区为基础的方案中的治疗和跟踪 在他们离开治疗或监狱/监狱后的30天和7个月。这个 研究采用定性和定量相结合的数据和方法。一个 半结构化调查问卷将包含开放式问题，以获得 关于社会支持来源和类型的定性信息，以及 封闭式问题以获得与艾滋病毒相关的定量数据 行为和个人特征。几个标准的心理学 还将对仪器进行管理。一项人种学研究 还将进行治疗毕业生(N=60)的分样本调查。在一个 随着研究的深入，这项研究将提供关于如何 社会支持对女性减少艾滋病风险行为的影响 恢复。

In addition to harm reduction approaches, the combined process of drug- free treatment and recovery is a significant HIV risk reduction strategy for woman who inject drugs and engage in risky sexual activities. The premise of the proposed studies that drug-free recovery directly reduces injection drug use and crack use, and indirectly reduces sexual risk behaviors. Further, social support--defined as "resources provided by others"--is essential to maintaining drug-free recovery and influences the adoption and constant practice of HIV risk reduction behaviors over time. The aims of the study are: (1) To document longitudinally the sources, types, amount, and quality of social support for women ex- offenders during the first seven months after leaving drug treatment; (2) to assess ethnographically the function of various types of social support in relation to HIV risk reduction behaviors; (3) to examine the interrelationships between various behavioral indicators of HIV/AIDS risk reduction and measures of HIV risk behaviors, social support, drug treatment, and individual characteristics (including HIV serostatus, psychological traits, and demographics) as well as variations in these relationships over time; (4) to develop models to predict HIV related risk reduction behaviors among women ex-offenders who have been mandated to drug synthesize research findings and recommend HIV intervention strategies. To achieve the aims, the proposed study will conduct baseline interviews with women (N-600) recently admitted to drug treatment in prison/jail and community based programs and follow them up 30-days and 7-months after they leave treatment or prison/jail. The study integrates qualitative and quantitative data and methods. A semistructured questionnaire will contain open-ended questions to obtain qualitative information on the sources and types of social support, and close-ended questions to obtain quantitative data on HIV related behaviors and individual characteristics. Several standard psychological instruments will also be administered. An ethnographic study of a subsample of treatment graduates (N=60) will also be conducted. In an area barren with research, this study will provide insight about how social support influences HIV risk reduction behaviors among women in recovery.