Using Syndemics Theory to Investigate Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Condomless Sex Among Youth Living with HIV in 17 U.S. Cities

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• 作者：Jacob J. van den Berg ; M. Isabel Fernández ; Joseph L. Fava…
• 关键词：Youth living with HIV ; HIV prevention ; Structural equation modeling ; Syndemics theory ; Condomless sex
• 刊名：AIDS and Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：21
• 期：3
• 页码：833-844
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Psychology; Infectious Diseases;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-3254
• 卷排序：21

文摘

Identifying risk and protective factors associated with condomless sex among youth living with HIV is imperative for developing effective HIV prevention strategies. A cross-sectional sample of 1728 participants, 12–26 years of age, recruited from adolescent medicine clinics in 17 U.S. cities completed an audio-computer assisted self-interview with questions about their substance use, psychosocial factors, and attitudinal and behavioral factors. Guided by syndemics theory, a path analysis was used to assess the interrelations of these factors. Analyses of model fit statistics indicated statistically significant direct pathways between substance use, psychosocial factors, self-efficacy for risk-reduction, alternative risk-reduction attitudes and behaviors and condomless sex. The total indirect effect of self-efficacy for risk-reduction on condomless sex through alternative risk-reduction attitudes and behaviors was also significant. Multi-faceted, tailored interventions that address individual risk and protective factors and their combined synergistic effects are urgently needed to prevent condomless sex among this population.