@article{ref1,
title="Post-traumatic stress disorder and HIV risk behaviors among rural American Indian/Alaska Native women",
journal="American Indian and Alaska Native mental health research",
year="2015",
author="Pearson, Cynthia R. and Kaysen, Debra and Belcourt, Annie and Stappenbeck, Cynthia A. and Zhou, Chuan and Smartlowit-Briggs, Lucy and Whitefoot, Patricia",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="1-20",
abstract="We assessed the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), binge drinking, and HIV sexual risk behavior by examining number of unprotected sex acts and number of sexual partners in the past 6 months among 129 sexually active American Indian women. A total of 51 (39.5%) young women met PTSD criteria. Among women who met the PTSD criteria, binge drinking was associated with a 35% increased rate of unprotected sex (IRR 1.35, p <.05), and there was a stronger association between increased binge drinking and risk of more sexual partners (IRR 1.21, p <.001) than among women who did not meet PTSD criteria (IRR 1.08, p <.01) with a difference of 13% (p <.05). HIV intervention and prevention interventions in this population likely would benefit from the inclusion of efforts to reduce binge drinking and increase treatment of PTSD symptoms.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0893-5394",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}