Immigrant Workers-Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and Their Sexual Risk Behaviors: A Respondent-Driven Sampling Survey in South Korea

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• 作者：Minsoo Jung (123) mins.jung@gmail.com
• 关键词：Sexual risk behavior – Immigrant groups – HIV knowledge – Respondent ; driven sampling – South Korea
• 刊名：Sexuality and Disability
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：June 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：30
• 期：2
• 页码：199-208
• 全文大小：229.3 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Health Science Research Institute, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea2. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA3. Department of Healthcare Management, Korea University, San 1, Jeongneung-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 136-703 Republic of Korea
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Community and Environmental Psychology
  Psychiatry
  Aging
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6717

文摘

As the labor market goes global, immigrant workers are becoming important around the world. However, little research has focused on the characteristics of their sex behaviors. This study examines foreign employees in Korea in order to investigate their understanding of HIV and sexual risk behaviors. The sample (N = 547) was formed from migrant workers in the industrial complex in Ansan district, which depends highly on foreigners as its labor source. Logistic regression, analysis revealed that 36.0% of the respondents were engaged in more than one sexual risk behavior. Those who knew someone infected with HIV (OR = 2.583) and Thai respondents (OR = 3.007) showed high sexual risk behaviors, while married (OR = 0.182) and Korean Chinese (OR = 0.280) workers showed low sexual risk behaviors. Those who had a wealth of knowledge about HIV took a less discriminatory position against the person who had infected them, but this had no statistical effects over the sexual risk behaviors.