title: Health-seeking behaviors among HIV-negative, high-risk black women living in an urban southern city.
abstract: This study explores the HIV health information-seeking behavior among Black women living in a southern urban city in the United States. Interviews were conducted with 50 Black women to explore their HIV health-seeking behavior, self-efficacy, and locus of control. Results indicate that despite the multiple HIV risk factors faced by the women a majority of them did not seek out HIV health information. Policy implications for HIV prevention education are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a Department of African American Studies , Georgia State University , Atlanta , Georgia , USA.
authors.forename: Sarita K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Black women; HIV health information seeking; self-efficacy