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- Title
Substance use during sexual and physical assault in HIV-infected persons.
- Authors
Chuang, Cynthia H.; Liebschutz, Jane M.; Cheng, Debbie M.; Raj, Anita; Samet, Jeffrey H.
- Abstract
Data from the HIV-Alcohol Longitudinal Cohort was used to determine the prevalence of substance use by victims and assailants during physical and sexual assault against HIV-infected persons and whether these findings differed by gender. Of the sexually assaulted participants, 31% of victims and 70% of assailant(s) had used drugs/alcohol during sexual assault. Compared with men, women had higher odds of substance use during sexual assault (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3.8, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.6 to 8.7) and of substance use by their assailant(s) during sexual assault (adjusted OR 5.9, 95% CI 1.7 to 20.6) in adjusted analysis. Of the physically assaulted participants, 66% of victims and 85% of assailants used drugs/alcohol during physical assault; these results did not differ by gender.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE; PHYSICAL abuse; SEX crimes; SUBSTANCE abuse; ALCOHOLISM; HIV-positive persons; SEXUAL abuse victims; VICTIMS of violent crimes; BATTERING (Abuse); OFFENSES against the person
- Publication
Violence & Victims, 2007, Vol 22, Issue 2, p216
- ISSN
0886-6708
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1891/088667007780477311