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Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees
BACKGROUND: Justice-involved youth have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and a higher prevalence of the associated sexual risk behaviors. Sexual risk behaviors are also associated with alcohol and drug use. Research suggests that a history of trauma is an important predictor o...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32577955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-020-00116-4 |
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author | Selitsky, Lea Markowitz, Norman Baxa, Dwayne M. Kaljee, Linda Miree, Cheryl A. Islam, Nishat Burse, Chez Newaz, Rehnuma Dankerlui, Doreen Jacobsen, Gordon Joseph, Christine |
author_facet | Selitsky, Lea Markowitz, Norman Baxa, Dwayne M. Kaljee, Linda Miree, Cheryl A. Islam, Nishat Burse, Chez Newaz, Rehnuma Dankerlui, Doreen Jacobsen, Gordon Joseph, Christine |
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description | BACKGROUND: Justice-involved youth have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and a higher prevalence of the associated sexual risk behaviors. Sexual risk behaviors are also associated with alcohol and drug use. Research suggests that a history of trauma is an important predictor of alcohol and drug use in youth offenders, and therefore is a likely contributor to sexual risk behavior in this population. The objective of this analysis is to determine the association of trauma, specifically, domestic violence and forced sex, to six sexual risk behaviors and a history of chlamydia among detained youth. METHODS: The analysis uses data from a convenience sample of detainees assenting to HIV testing conducted December 2016 – August 2017 using the state-certified Voluntary Counseling Testing and Referral (VCTR) process. RESULTS: Of the 379 youth that received VCTR at the facility, 308 (81.3%) were used in this analysis. Report of domestic violence was significantly associated with sex under the influence of alcohol and was also significantly associated with sex under the influence of marijuana. Forced sex was associated with a sexual partner of unknown HIV status. CONCLUSIONS: Traumatic experiences were related to sexual risk behaviors in this analysis, and substance use was strongly implicated in the association. Trauma is known to be a catalyst to sexual risk behaviors, substance use, and delinquency in adolescence. Results support the findings of other investigators and re-iterate the need for trauma-informed interventions that can improve the life trajectories of detained youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-73131842020-06-24 Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees Selitsky, Lea Markowitz, Norman Baxa, Dwayne M. Kaljee, Linda Miree, Cheryl A. Islam, Nishat Burse, Chez Newaz, Rehnuma Dankerlui, Doreen Jacobsen, Gordon Joseph, Christine Health Justice Research Article BACKGROUND: Justice-involved youth have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and a higher prevalence of the associated sexual risk behaviors. Sexual risk behaviors are also associated with alcohol and drug use. Research suggests that a history of trauma is an important predictor of alcohol and drug use in youth offenders, and therefore is a likely contributor to sexual risk behavior in this population. The objective of this analysis is to determine the association of trauma, specifically, domestic violence and forced sex, to six sexual risk behaviors and a history of chlamydia among detained youth. METHODS: The analysis uses data from a convenience sample of detainees assenting to HIV testing conducted December 2016 – August 2017 using the state-certified Voluntary Counseling Testing and Referral (VCTR) process. RESULTS: Of the 379 youth that received VCTR at the facility, 308 (81.3%) were used in this analysis. Report of domestic violence was significantly associated with sex under the influence of alcohol and was also significantly associated with sex under the influence of marijuana. Forced sex was associated with a sexual partner of unknown HIV status. CONCLUSIONS: Traumatic experiences were related to sexual risk behaviors in this analysis, and substance use was strongly implicated in the association. Trauma is known to be a catalyst to sexual risk behaviors, substance use, and delinquency in adolescence. Results support the findings of other investigators and re-iterate the need for trauma-informed interventions that can improve the life trajectories of detained youth. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7313184/ /pubmed/32577955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-020-00116-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Selitsky, Lea Markowitz, Norman Baxa, Dwayne M. Kaljee, Linda Miree, Cheryl A. Islam, Nishat Burse, Chez Newaz, Rehnuma Dankerlui, Doreen Jacobsen, Gordon Joseph, Christine Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title | Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title_full | Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title_fullStr | Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title_short | Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
title_sort | self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32577955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-020-00116-4 |
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