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- Title
Parole Officer-parolee Relationships and HIV Risk Behaviors during Community Supervision.
- Authors
Green, Traci; Johnson, Jennifer; Harrington, Magdalena; Pouget, Enrique; Rhodes, Anne; Taxman, Faye; O'Connell, Daniel; Martin, Steven; Prendergast, Michael; Friedmann, Peter
- Abstract
We tested if good parole officer (PO)-parolee relationships reduce HIV risk behaviors during parole, as they do for risk of rearrest. Analyses used data from 374 parolees enrolled in a randomized clinical trial. Past month HIV risk behaviors were assessed by interview at baseline, 3- and 9-months after parole initiation. The Working Alliance Inventory and the Dual-Role Relationships Inventory measured PO relationship. Gender-stratified multivariate regressions tested associations of PO-parolee relationship with sex with multiple partners, unprotected sex with risky partner(s), and drug injection. Women parolees ( n = 65) who reported better PO relationship characteristics were less likely to report having multiple sex partners [adjusted odds ratio: 0.82 (0.69, 0.98) at 3-months, 0.89 (0.80, 0.99) at 9-months], and, among those reporting multiple sex partners, had fewer partners on average [adjusted relative risk 0.98 (0.96, 0.99)]. These effects were not found among men. PO-parolee relationship quality can influence sexual risk behaviors among women parolees.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HIV prevention; HIV infection transmission; CONFIDENCE intervals; CRIMINALS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV-positive persons; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; RISK-taking behavior; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; RELATIVE medical risk; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
AIDS & Behavior, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 8, p2667
- ISSN
1090-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10461-011-0081-1