作者
Mehdi Noroozi, Elahe Ahounbar, Salah eddin Karimi, Sina Ahmadi, Mohammad Najafi, Ali Bazrafshan, Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari, Mohammad Hassan Farhadi, Peter Higgs, Fatemeh Rezaei, Hesam Ghiasvand, Asaad Sharhani, Bahram Armoon, Katherine Waye
发表日期
2017/8
期刊
International journal of behavioral medicine
卷号
24
页码范围
613-618
出版商
Springer US
简介
Purpose
Understanding and increasing awareness on individual risk for HIV infection as well as HIV risk perception’s effects on different behavioral outcomes for people who inject drugs (PWID) is important for policymaking and planning purposes. The objectives of the present study were to determine whether HIV risk perception was associated with greater injection and sexual risk-taking behaviors among PWIDs.
Method
We surveyed 460 PWID in Kermanshah regarding their demographic characteristics, sexual risk behaviors, HIV risk perception, and drug-related risk behaviors in the month prior to the study. Three classes of HIV risk perception were identified using ordinal regression to determine factors associated with HIV risk perception.
Results
Study participants were categorized as follows: “low” (n = 100, 22 …
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