Young Indigenous Australians' Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Practices: A Community-based Participatory Research Project

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 519-532

  Mooney Somers, Julie ^a,b   Olsen, Anna ^b   Erick, Wani ^c   Scott, Robert ^d   Akee, Angie ^d   Maher, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Community based participatory research; Condoms; Indigenous people; STI prevention; STI screening; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867101132     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.1134     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Arabena, K. (2006). Preachers, policies and power: The reproductive health of adolescent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 17(2), 85-90.
2. The Australian (2008. Tuesday 5 February). Sexual Health Shame. The Australian.
3. Bell, J. (2009). Why embarrassment inhibits the acquisition and use of condoms: A qualitative approach to understanding risky sexual behaviour. Journal of Adolescence, 32(2), 379-391.
4. Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, 77-101.
5. Brough, M., Bond, C., & Hunt, J. (2004). Strong in the city: Towards a strength-based approach in Indigenous health promotion. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 15(3), 215-220.
6. Carmody, M., & Willis, K. (2006). Developing ethical sexual lives: young people, sex and sexual assault prevention. Penrith: University of Western Sydney.
7. Cusick, L., & Rhodes, T. (2000). Sustaining sexual safety in relationships: HIV positive people and their sexual partners. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2(4), 473-487.
8. De Visser, R., Smith, A., Rissel, C., Richters, J., & Grulich, A. (2003). Sex in Australia: Safer sex and condom use. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 27, 223-229.
9. Department of Health and Aging. (2005). National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005-2008. Canberra: Department of Health and Aging, Australian Government.
10. Devries, K. M., & Free, C. (2010). 'I told him not to use condoms': Masculinities, femininities and sexual health of Aboriginal Canadian young people. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32, 827-842.
11. East, L., Jackson, D., O'Brien, L., & Peters, K. (2007). Use of the male condom by heterosexual adolescents and young people: Literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 59(2), 103-110.
12. Flicker, S., Flynn, S., Larkin, J., Travers, R., Guta, A., Pole, J., & Layne, C. (2009). Sexpress: The Toronto Teen Survey Report. Toronto, ON: Planned Parenthood Toronto.
13. Flicker, S., Larkin, J., Smilie-Adjarkwa, C., Restoule, J.-P., Barlow, K., Dagnino, M., ... Mitchell, C. (2008). "It's hard to change something when you don't know where to start": Unpacking HIV vulnerability with Aboriginal youth in Canada. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health 5(2), 175-200.
14. Graffigna, G., & Olson, K. (2009). The ineffable disease: Exploring young people's discourses about HIV/AIDS in Alberta, Canada. Qualitative Health Research, 19(6), 790-801.
15. Queensland Health (2003). Queensland Indigenous Sexual Health Strategy 2003-2006. Brisbane: Queensland Government.
16. Hillier, L., Dempsey, D., & Harrison, L. (1999). "I'd never share a needle'...[but I often have unsafe sex]: Considering the paradox of young people's sex and drugs talk. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 1(4), 347-361.
17. Hillier, L., Harrison, L., & Warr, D. (1998). "When you carry condoms all the boys think you want it": Negotiating competing discourses about safe sex. Journal of Adolescence, 21, 15-29.
18. James S., Reddy S. P., Taylor M., & Jinabhai C. C. (2004). Young people, HIV/AIDS/STIs and sexuality in South Africa: The gap between awareness and behaviour. Acta Paediatrica, 93(2), 264-269.
19. Katz, B., Fortenberry, J., Zimet, G., Blythe, M., Orr, D. (2000). Partner-specific relationship characteristics and condom use among young people with sexually transmitted diseases. Journal of Sex Research, 37(1), 69-75.
20. Larkins, S., Page, R, Panaretto, K., Scott, R, Mitchell, M., Alberts, V., ... McGinty, S. (2007). Attitudes and behaviours of young indigenous people in Townsville concerning relationships, sex and contraception: The "U Mob Yarn Up" project. Medical Journal of Australia, 186(10), 513-518.
21. Lear, D. (1995). Sexual communication in the age of AIDS: The construction of risk and trust among young adults. Social Science & Medicine, 41(9), 1311-1323.
22. Marston, C., & King, E. (2006). Factors that shape young people's sexual behaviour: A systematic review. Lancet, 368, 1581-1586.
23. Miller, G. C., McDermott, R., McCulloch, B., Fairley, C. K., & Muller, R. (2003). Predictors of the prevalence of bacterial STI among young disadvantaged Indigenous people in north Queensland, Australia. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 79(4), 332-335.
24. Mooney-Somers, J., & Maher, L. (2009). The Indigenous Resiliency Project: A worked example of community-based participatory research. NSW Public Health Bulletin, 20, 112-118.
25. Mooney-Somers, J., Erick, E., Brockman, D., Scott, R., & Maher, L. (2008). Indigenous Resiliency Project Participatory Action Research Component: A report on the Research Training and Development Workshop, Townsville, February 2008. Sydney: National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales.
26. Mooney-Somers, J., Olsen, A., Erick, E., Scott, R., Akee, A., Kaldor, J., & Maher, L. (2011). Learning from the past: Young Indigenous people's accounts of blood-borne viral and sexually transmitted infections as resilience narratives. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 13(2), 173-186.
27. Mooney-Somers, J., Olsen, A., Erick, E., Scott, R., Akee, A., & Maher, L. (2009). Sexual health through the eyes of Indigenous youth: Community-based participatory research with young Indigenous people in Townsville. Sydney: National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales.
28. National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. (2009a). Bloodborne viral and sexually transmitted infections in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Surveillance and Evaluation Report 2009. Sydney, NSW: National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales.
29. National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. (2009b). HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia Annual Surveillance Report 2009. Sydney, NSW: National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, The University of New South Wales.
30. Panaretto, K. S., Lee, H. M., Mitchell, M. R., Larkins, S. L., Manessis, V., Buettner, G., & Watson, D. (2006). Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in pregnant urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in northern Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 46(3), 217-224.
31. Pyett, P., Waples-Crowe, P., & van der Sterren, A. (2008). Challenging our own practices in Indigenous health promotion and research. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 19(3), 197.
32. Robinson, N. (2008. Monday 4 February). Drastic action needed to end STDs. The Australian.
33. Smith, J. L., Fenwick, J., Skinner, R., Hallet, J., Merriman, G., & Marshall, L. (Published Online First: 10 September 2010). Sex, condoms and sexually transmissible infections: A qualitative study of sexual health in young Australian men. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
34. Sorenson, A., & Brown, G. (2007). Report on the sexual health education of young people in Western Australia. Perth: Western Australia Health.
35. Stancome Research and Planning. (2008). Formative research for the National Sexually Transmitted Infections (including HIV/AIDS) prevention program. Canberra: Department of Health and Aging.
36. Stancome Research and Planning. (2009). Measuring awareness and attitudes among young Australians towards STIs, including HIV/AIDS. Canberra: Department of Health and Aging.
37. Stark, A. M., & Hope, A. (2007). Aboriginal women's stories of sexually transmissible infection transmission and condom use in remote central Australia. Sexual Health, 4, 237-242.
38. Viswanathan, M., Ammerman, A., Eng, E., Gartlehner, G., Lohr, K., Griffith, D., & Whitener, L. (2004). Community-Based Participatory Research: Assessing the evidence. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
39. Woolf, S., & Maisto, S. (2007). Gender differences in condom use behavior? The role of power and partner-type. Sex Roles, 58(9-10), 689-701.