Journal
AIDS EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 298-309Publisher
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2007.19.4.298
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- NIDA NIH HHS [1F31 DA017423-01A2, 1R01 DA016555] Funding Source: Medline
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Although research has consistently shown a link between perceived norms and HIV risk behaviors, research examining interpersonal variables that may contribute to perceived norms is sparse. Verbal communication is an important mechanism for establishing, altering, and maintaining norms. In this study we of assess the association between HIV-related communication and perceived 14 norms. Baseline data from 684 drug injectors enrolled in the STEP into Action (STEP) study were analyzed. Multivariate results revealed that injection drug users (IDUs) who talked to their drug partners about HIV were less likely to perceive that they engaged in risky injection behavior (beta = -1.53, SE = 0.29, p <.001). Also, exchanging sex for money or drugs (beta = 15.83, SE = 7.02, p = .024), going to a shooting gallery (beta = 17.03, SE = 6.79, p = .013), and having an IDU sex partner (beta = 15.34, SE = 6.58, p = .020) were associated with belief that peers' practiced risky drug behaviors. These findings may be used to develop peer education HIV prevention interventions for drug users.
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