Sex trade in a male-to-female transgender population: Psychosocial correlates of inconsistent condom use

Sexual Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-54

  Clements Nolle, Kristen ^a,b   Guzman, Robert ^b   Harris, Susan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b AIDS Office San Francisco   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDOM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOUSING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERSONAL NEEDS; PROSTITUTION; RAPE; RISK REDUCTION; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDOMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRACK COCAINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 39749115754     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH07045     Document Type: Article

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