title: Time Since Release from Incarceration and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Women: The Potential Protective Role of Committed Partners During Re-entry.
abstract: After release from incarceration, former female inmates face considerable stressors, which may influence drug use and other risk behaviors that increase risk for HIV infection. Involvement in a committed partnership may protect women against re-entry stressors that may lead to risky behaviors. This study measured the association between time since release from incarceration (1-6 months ago, and >6 months ago versus never incarcerated) and HIV risk behaviors and evaluated whether these associations differed by involvement in a committed partnership. Women released within the past 6 months were significantly more likely to have smoked crack cocaine, used injection drugs and engaged in transactional sex in the past month compared to never-incarcerated women and women released more distally. Stratified analyses indicated that incarceration within the past 6 months was associated with crack cocaine smoking, injection drug use and transactional sex among women without a committed partner yet unassociated with these risk behaviors among those with a committed partner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, 1225 Center Drive, P.O. Box 100165, Gainesville, FL, 32610-0165, USA, lehearn@phhp.ufl.edu.
authors.forename: Lauren E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Hearn
authors.forename: Nicole Ennis
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Whitehead
authors.forename: Maria R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: William W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Latimer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011330:Prisons; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D057566:Self Report; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012747:Sexual Partners; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult