Posttraumatic stress disorder and HIV risk among poor, inner-city women receiving care in an emergency department.

Publisher: American Public Health Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1254074 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-0048 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00900036 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Public Health Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Washington, DC : American Public Health Association
Original Publication: New York [etc.]

Poverty*; HIV Infections/*prevention & control ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/*psychology ; Unsafe Sex/*psychology; Adolescent ; Adult ; Adult Survivors of Child Abuse/psychology ; Black or African American/psychology ; Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data ; Female ; Hispanic or Latino/psychology ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Multivariate Analysis ; New York City/epidemiology ; Regression Analysis ; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/ethnology ; Substance-Related Disorders/ethnology ; Substance-Related Disorders/psychology ; Unsafe Sex/ethnology

Objectives: We examined the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and HIV risk behaviors among a random sample of 241 low-income women receiving care in an urban emergency department.
Methods: We recruited participants from the emergency department waiting room during randomly selected 6-hour blocks of time. Multivariate analyses and propensity score weighting were used to examine the associations between PTSD and HIV risk after adjustment for potentially confounding sociodemographic variables, substance use, childhood sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence.
Results: A large majority of the sample self-identified as Latina (49%) or African American (44%). Almost one third (29%) of the participants met PTSD criteria. Women who exhibited symptoms in 1 or more PTSD symptom clusters were more likely than women who did not to report having had sex with multiple sexual partners, having had sex with a risky partner, and having experienced partner violence related to condom use in the preceding 6 months.
Conclusions: The high rate of PTSD found in this sample and the significant associations between PTSD symptom clusters and partner-related risk behaviors highlight the need to take PTSD into account when designing HIV prevention interventions for low-income, urban women.

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