Correlates of Sex Trading among Drug-Involved Women in Committed Intimate Relationships: A Risk Profile

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 420-428

  Jiwatram Negrón, Tina ^a   El Bassel, Nabila ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTIMACY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NEW YORK; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84937516807     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.04.007     Document Type: Article

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