Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Correctional Health Care
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Moseley, K.
Right arrow Articles by Tewksbury, R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Moseley, K.
Right arrow Articles by Tewksbury, R.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Prevalence and Predictors of HIV Risk Behaviors Among Male Prison Inmates

Kera Moseley, DrPH, MPH

Prometheus Group, New Orleans, Louisiana, keramoseley{at}cox.net

Richard Tewksbury, PhD

University of Louisville Department of Justice Administration, Louisville, Kentucky

The purpose of this research is to estimate the prevalence of two high-risk behaviors (anal sex and injection drug use) in prison inmates and to identify the predictors of HIV-related risk behaviors during incarceration. Data come from a 1998 cross-sectional quantitative study at three Louisiana state prisons for men from surveys (N = 2,287) and presurvey and postsurvey focus groups. Results show that the best way to determine who will inject drugs and have anal sex in prison is to identify inmates who engaged in those behaviors before incarceration. Multivariate analysis found four statistically significant predictor variables, resulting in a small but extremely high-risk group of men who engaged in high-risk behaviors both before and during incarceration. Inmates who, during the month before incarceration, engaged in anal sex, gave sex for money, or used injection drugs and those with high knowledge of HIV transmission risks were more likely to engage in high-risk behavior in prison. Study results suggest that prevention and intervention programs may be more efficient and effective if targeted specifically to this narrowly defined risk group

Key Words: HIV risk behavior • male inmates • prison health • correctional health

Journal of Correctional Health Care, Vol. 12, No. 2, 132-144 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1078345806288958
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?