2019/12/06 by Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Stacey A. Shaw, Xin Ma +2 · 2 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Binge drinking #Demography #Environmental health #Ethnic group #HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk #Homelessness and Social Issues #Injury prevention #Logistic regression #Marital status #Medicine #Poison control #Prison #Psychiatry #Psychology #Sex work and related issues #Suicide prevention
paper · doi:10.1177/0093854819892932
published in Criminal Justice and Behavior 47(5), 529-546 (SAGE Publishing)
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This article examines the prevalence of and factors associated with sex trading among a high-risk sample of 337 substance-involved women in community corrections enrolled in an HIV risk reduction study in New York City, using baseline data. Forty percent of the sample reported trading sex for money, food, drugs, or other resources in the prior 90 days. Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed significant associations among age, ethnic minority status, marital status, prior mental health hospitalization, binge drinking, and having recently been in jail/prison and sex trading ( p < .05). Women who reported that both they and their partner recently (past 90 days) used crack/cocaine or that their partner recently used crack/cocaine were more likely to report sex trading than women who reported that neither they nor their partner recently used crack/cocaine ( p < .05). Study findings underscore an urgent need for multipronged intervention efforts that simultaneously address multilevel risk exposures.