Citation

Medrano MA, Desmond DP, Zule WA, Hatch JP. Am. J. Drug Alcohol Abuse 1999; 25(4): 593-606.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78284-7792, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10548437

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the association between childhood trauma and current human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors of 181 active illicit-drug-using women in San Antonio, Texas. We found very few statistically significant associations, which could he explained by (a) childhood trauma subtypes not being mutually exclusive, (b) clustering of mild-to-severe forms of abuse. and (c) childhood trauma having an indirect, rather than direct, effect on HIV risk behavior. Public health implications from this study are that prevention programs need to consider past and current individual and environmental factors that influence HIV sexual risk behaviors in women drug users.

Language: en