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The Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and High-Risk Social Ties Among Illicit Drug Users in New York City, 2006-2009.
- Source :
- AIDS & Behavior; Jan2013, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p419-426, 8p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Discrimination can influence risk of disease by promoting unhealthy behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol use). Whether it influences the formation of high-risk social ties that facilitate HIV transmission is unclear. Using cross-sectional data from a cohort of illicit drug users, this study examined the association between discrimination based on race, drug use and prior incarceration and risky sex and drug ties. Negative binomial regression models were performed. Participants who reported discrimination based on race and drug use had significantly more sex and drug-using ties. But, after accounting for both racial and drug use discrimination, only racial discrimination was associated with increased sex, drug-using, and injecting ties. Drug users who experience discrimination and subsequently develop more sex and drug-using ties, increase their risk of contracting HIV. Future longitudinal studies illuminating the pathways linking discrimination and social network development may guide intervention development and identify drug-using subpopulations at high risk for disease transmission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HIV prevention
CONFIDENCE intervals
DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
INTERPERSONAL relations
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
RISK-taking behavior
SOCIAL networks
U-statistics
CITY dwellers
CROSS-sectional method
PSYCHOLOGY of drug abusers
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10907165
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AIDS & Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 84944266
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0201-6