Predictors of Maintained High-Risk Behaviors among Impoverished Women

• Published in: Public health reports (1974) Vol. 110; no. 5; pp. 600 - 606
• Main Authors: Nyamathi, Adeline M., Crystal Bennett, Leake, Barbara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health 01.09.1995; Association of Schools of Public Health; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - prevention & control; Adult; African Americans; AIDS; Biological and medical sciences; Continental Population Groups; Crack Cocaine; Depressive disorders; Drug addiction; Female; Health Behavior; Health education; Health Education - organization & administration; Health risk assessment; HIV; Homeless people; Homeless Persons - psychology; Human sexual behavior; Humans; Injections; Medical sciences; Poverty; Predictive Value of Tests; Prevention and actions; Program Evaluation; Public health; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Risk-Taking; Scientific Contributions; Self esteem; Sexual behavior; Sexual partners; Sexually transmitted diseases; Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...); Substance-Related Disorders - complications; Substance-Related Disorders - psychology; Substance-Related Disorders - rehabilitation; Women; United States; North America; America; Human; Evaluation; Sanitary program; Drug addiction; Poverty; Sexual behavior; Prediction; Behavior change; Risk taking; Health education; Homeless; Woman; Public health

THE RESEARCHERS SOUGHT to explore and describe the demographic, cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioral factors associated with the continued risky behavior of a convenience sample of homeless and drug-addicted women two to four weeks after they had completed an AIDS education program. The sample in...