HIV/AIDS risk perception, HIV risk behaviors, and HIV seropositivity among injection drug users in Puerto Rico
P. R. health sci. j
;
13(2): 153-8, jun. 1994.
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-176782
RESUMO
This paper assesses the factors related to self perception of developing AIDS among a group of 1,568 Puerto Rican injection drug users (IDUs). Incarceration history, years of drug injection, sharing needles, renting and borrowing needles, sharing rinse water or cooker, and having an IDU sex partner yielded a moderate association with HIV/AIDS risk perception. Use of sterile needles, shooting drugs alone, having had previous treatment episodes, and all the variables related to health status were also moderately associated with HIV/AIDS risk perception. A logistic regression model based on backwards elimination procedure, which included statistically significant variables in the bivariate analyses, yielded the variables living with children, sex with an IDU partner, shooting drugs alone, perception of health, having had a sexually transmitted disease, and results of HIV testing as statistically significant (p < 0.05)
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Risk-Taking
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Self Concept
/
HIV Infections
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Substance Abuse, Intravenous
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
/
Male
Country/Region as subject:
Caribbean
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Puerto Rico
Language:
English
Journal:
P. R. health sci. j
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
1994
Type:
Article
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