RISK PROFILES OF WOMEN EXPERIENCING INITIAL AND REPEAT INCARCERATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION PROGRAMS

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• Alternative Title:
  AIDS Educ Prev
• Personal Author:
  Herbst, Jeffrey H. ; Branscomb-Burgess, Olivia ; Gelaude, Deborah J. ; Seth, Puja ; Parker, Sharon ; Fogel, Catherine I.
• Description:
  Incarcerated women experience myriad individual, interpersonal, and structural factors leading to arrest and rearrest. This study examined risk profiles of women experiencing initial and repeat incarcerations. The sample included 521 women recruited from two prisons in North Carolina and enrolled in a HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention trial. Variables included socio-demographics, structural/economic factors, sexual and substance use behaviors, STDs, victimization history, and depressive symptoms. Bivariate and multivariable analyses identified risk differences. Compared to women incarcerated for the first time, women with repeat incarcerations reported significantly greater economic instability, substance use and sexual risk behaviors, laboratory-confirmed STDs, and victimization during childhood and adulthood. Multivariable logistic regression found women with repeat incarcerations experienced greater unstable housing, injection drug use, crack cocaine use, concurrent sex partners, and childhood sexual victimization. Findings can inform the development of prevention programs by addressing economic instability, sexual risk, and substance use among women prisoners.
• Subjects:
  Adult Female HIV Infections Humans Logistic Models Prisoners Prisons Risk-Taking Sexual Behavior Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexual Partners Substance-Related Disorders Substance Abuse, Intravenous Young Adult

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• Source:
  AIDS Educ Prev. 28(4):299-311
• Pubmed ID:
  27427925
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9982652
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R25 MH083620/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UR6 PS000670/PS/NCHHSTP CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bb7101d09b7c409e9b1a821d40060b0b77f595093a8e35dcfc16bd1ec330f344
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/125394/cdc_125394_DS1.pdf
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