Community-based interventions to reduce low income, African American women's risk of sexually transmitted diseases: A randomized controlled trial of three theoretical models

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 937-964

  St Lawrence, Janet S ^a   Wilson, Tracey E ^b   Eldridge, Gloria D ^a   Brasfield, Ted L ^a   O'Bannon, Robert E ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; HIV; Interventions to reduce risk behavior; Sexual risk behavior; Theory driven interventions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDOM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFE SEX; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MISSISSIPPI; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SAFE SEX; SELF EFFICACY; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0035751705     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012919700096     Document Type: Article

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