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The relationship between sex-related alcohol expectancies and hazardous drinking among persons with HIV disease
- Source :
- AIDS care. 33(11)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Hazardous drinking is a clinically significant problem among persons with HIV (PWH) disease, and is associated with a number of poor outcomes. Hazardous drinking among PWH is associated with risky substance use and sexual behavior, but little work has examined factors that may be associated with greater hazardous drinking and subsequent risky sexual behaviors among PWH. Research among the general population suggests that sex-related alcohol expectancies, defined as drinking to enhance sexual experience, increase sexual risk-taking, and disinhibition of sexual behavior, are associated with greater hazardous alcohol use and risky sexual behavior, but these relations have not been explored among PWH. Therefore, the current study examined the associations of sex-related alcohol expectancies with hazardous alcohol consumption, dependence, and problems among 146 PWH (Mage = 50.99, SD = 9.41) \ enrolled in a clinical trial examining a personalized feedback intervention to reduce hazardous drinking in primary HIV care. Results showed that only sexual disinhibition-related alcohol expectancies were significantly associated with the criterion variables, such that greater drinking alcohol for sexual disinhibition was associated with greater hazardous drinking behaviors. These results sit on the backdrop of a larger literature documenting the links between disinhibition and hazardous alcohol use and provide explanatory specificity to PWH who are hazardous drinkers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Health (social science)
Social Psychology
Alcohol Drinking
Sexual Behavior
Population
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Alcohol
HIV Infections
Disease
medicine.disease_cause
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Risk-Taking
Intervention (counseling)
Environmental health
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
education.field_of_study
030505 public health
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
Inhibition, Psychological
chemistry
Disinhibition
medicine.symptom
Hazardous drinking
0305 other medical science
business
Hiv disease
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13600451
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIDS care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....33d959db6757d2b90a4a164dee106480