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The relationships among sexually transmitted infection, depression, and lifetime violence in a sample of predominantly African American women
Author(s) -
Laughon Kathryn,
Gielen Andrea Carlson,
Campbell Jacquelyn C.,
Burke Jessica,
McDonnell Karen,
O'Campo Patricia
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.20226
Subject(s) - odds , depression (economics) , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , odds ratio , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , logistic regression , family medicine , anxiety , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
This study was a secondary analysis of the relationships among lifetime experiences of violence, depressive symptoms, substance use, safer sex behaviors use, and past‐year sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment among a sample of 445 low income, primarily African American women (257 HIV‐, 188 HIV+) reporting a male intimate partner within the past year. Twenty‐one percent of HIV− and 33% of HIV+ women reported past‐year STI treatment. Violence victimization increased women's odds of past‐year STI treatment, controlling for HIV status and age. Depressive symptoms increased, and use of safer sex behaviors decreased, women's odds of past‐year STI treatment. Results suggest that positive assessment for violence and/or depression indicates need for STI screening. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 30:413–428, 2007.