@article{ref1,
title="Intimate partner violence and PrEP acceptability among low-income, young black women: exploring the mediating role of reproductive coercion",
journal="AIDS and behavior",
year="2017",
author="Willie, Tiara and Kershaw, Trace and Campbell, Jacquelyn C. and Alexander, Kamila A.",
volume="21",
number="8",
pages="2261-2269",
abstract="A few studies suggest that women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are willing to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), but no research has examined mediators of this relationship. The current study used path analysis to examine a phenomenon closely associated with IPV: reproductive coercion, or explicit male behaviors to promote pregnancy of a female partner without her knowledge or against her will. Birth control sabotage and pregnancy coercion-two subtypes of reproductive coercion behaviors-were examined as mediators of the relationship between IPV and PrEP acceptability among a cohort of 147 Black women 18-25 years of age recruited from community-based organizations in an urban city. IPV experiences were indirectly related to PrEP acceptability through birth control sabotage (indirect effect = 0.08; p < 0.05), but not to pregnancy coercion. <br><br>FINDINGS illustrate the importance of identifying and addressing reproductive coercion when assessing whether PrEP is clinically appropriate and a viable option to prevent HIV among women who experience IPV.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1090-7165",
doi="10.1007/s10461-017-1767-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-1767-9"
}