Deborah Jones1, Gary Marks2, Olga Villar-Loubet1, Stephen M Weiss1, Christine O'Daniels3, Craig B Borkowf2, Cathy Simpson4, Ada A Adimora5, Eleanor McLellan-Lemal2. 1. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA. 2. Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 3. Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ; Carter Consulting Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 4. School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 5. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N = 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event. METHODS: Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%). RESULTS: Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling. CONCLUSIONS: Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.
OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N = 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event. METHODS: Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%). RESULTS: Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling. CONCLUSIONS: Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.
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HIV prevention; Sexual violence; cross-cultural studies; quantitative studies; women
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