AIDS prevention in high-risk African American women: Behavioral, psychological, and gender issues

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-21

  Hetherington, Susan E ^a,b   Harris, Ruth M ^a   Bausell, R Barker ^a   Kavanagh, Kathryn H ^a   Scott, Doris E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b Hetherington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PATIENT COUNSELING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BLACKS--WOMEN; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENDER ISSUES; HIV INFECTIONS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE--WOMEN; LOW INCOME POPULATION--WOMEN; MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS--WOMEN; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK BEHAVIOR--WOMEN; SEX BEHAVIOR--WOMEN; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNITED STATES; VIRAL DISEASES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029894213     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926239608405301     Document Type: Article

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