IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/199383165-71_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

AIDS-related knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors among impoverished minority women

Author

Listed:
  • Nyamathi, A.
  • Bennett, C.
  • Leake, B.
  • Lewis, C.
  • Flaskerud, J.

Abstract

Objectives. The aims of this study were to (1) describe AIDS-related knowledge, perceptions, and risky behaviors of impoverished African-American and high- and low-acculturated Latina women; (2) delineate relationships involving high-risk behaviors; and (3) determine whether risky behaviors differ by race and levels of acculturation. Methods. Survey instruments were administered to 1173 impoverished women of color residing in homeless shelters and drug recovery programs. Results. Differences based on ethnicity and level of acculturation were found in AIDS-related knowledge, perceived risk of acquiring AIDS, and risky behaviors. Low-acculturated Latinas reported low perceived risk and were least likely to engage in illegal drug use and sexual activity with multiple partners. Intravenous drug use was most prevalent among high-acculturated Latinas, whereas nonintravenous drug use and high-risk sexual activity was most prevalent among African-American women. Conclusions. The data indicate the need for culturally sensitive AIDS prevention programs for women that deal with general issues of drug use and unprotected sex, and that include separate sessions for women of different ethnic backgrounds and acculturation levels to address specialized areas of concern.

Suggested Citation

  • Nyamathi, A. & Bennett, C. & Leake, B. & Lewis, C. & Flaskerud, J., 1993. "AIDS-related knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors among impoverished minority women," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 83(1), pages 65-71.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1993:83:1:65-71_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama, 2019. "The Values and Usefulness of Same-Sex Marriages Among the Females in Igbo Culture in the Continuity of Lineage or Posterity," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(2), pages 21582440198, May.
    2. Zule, W. A. & Desmond, D. P. & Medrano, M. A. & Hatch, J. P., 2001. "Acculturation and risky injection practices among Hispanic injectors," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 207-214, May.
    3. Chris McQuiston & Laura Bani Doerfer & K. Ivan Parra & Ann Gordon, 1998. "After-the-Fact Strategies Mexican Americans Use to Prevent HIV and STDs," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 7(4), pages 406-422, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1993:83:1:65-71_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.