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History of Childhood Abuse, Drinking Motives, Alcohol Use, and Sexual Risk Behavior Among STD Clinic Patients in St. Petersburg, Russia: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Source :
- AIDS and behavior. 20(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The relationship between level of childhood abuse (physical and emotional) and sexual risk behavior of sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients in St. Petersburg, Russia was examined through path analyses. Mediating variables investigated were: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), drinking motives (for social interaction, to enhance mood, to facilitate sexual encounters), intimate partner violence (IPV), anxiety, and depression symptoms. Results showed a significant indirect effect of childhood abuse on women’s sexual risk behavior: higher level of childhood abuse was associated with a greater likelihood of IPV, motivations to drink, leading to higher AUDIT scores and correlated to higher likelihood of having multiple, new or casual sexual partner(s). No significant effect was identified in paths to condom use. Among men, childhood abuse had no significant effect on sexual risk behavior. Reduction in alcohol-related sexual risk behavior may be achieved by addressing the effects of childhood abuse among female participants.
- Subjects :
- Child abuse
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Social Psychology
Alcohol Drinking
Sexual Behavior
Poison control
HIV Infections
Article
law.invention
Russia
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Risk-Taking
Condom
law
Medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child Abuse
Psychiatry
Psychological abuse
Child
Motivation
030505 public health
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
business.industry
Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
Infectious Diseases
Mood
Cross-Sectional Studies
Domestic violence
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
0305 other medical science
business
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733254
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIDS and behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1fa43e83a773e58e040a27586a4cb9fa