Love, trust, and HIV risk among female sex workers and their intimate male partners

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1667-1674

  Syvertsen, Jennifer L ^a   Bazzi, Angela Robertson ^b   Martinez, Gustavo ^c   Rangel, M Gudelia ^d   Ulibarri, Monica D ^e   Fergus, Kirkpatrick B ^f   Amaro, Hortensia ^g   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^h  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Federacion Mexicana Asociaciones P   (Mexico)

^d Secretaría de Salud Comisión de Salud Fronteriza México Estados Unidos   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FENWAY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOVE; MALE; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX WORKER; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRUST; UNSAFE SEX;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MALE; MEXICO; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TRUST; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 84937598137     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302620     Document Type: Article

References (66)

1. Sobo EJ. Inner-city women and AIDS: the psychosocial benefits of unsafe sex. Cult Med Psychiatry. 1993;17(4):455-485.
2. Lear D. Sexual communication in the age of AIDS: the construction of risk and trust among young adults. Soc Sci Med. 1995;41(9):1311-1323.
3. Pivnick A. HIV infection and the meaning of condoms. Cult Med Psychiatry. 1993;17(4):431-453.
4. Amaro H. Love, sex, and power: considering women's realities in HIV prevention. Am Psychol. 1995;50(6):437-447.
5. Barrington C, Latkin C, Sweat MD, Moreno L, Ellen J, Kerrigan D. Talking the talk, walking the walk: social network norms, communication patterns, and condom use among the male partners of female sex workers in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Soc Sci Med. 2009;68(11):2037-2044.
6. Stoebenau K, Hindin MJ, Nathanson CA, Rakotoarison PG, Razafintsalama V. "But then he became my sipa": the implications of relationship fluidity for condom use among women sex workers in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Am J Public Health. 2009;99(5):811-819.
7. Warr DJ, Pyett PM. Difficult relations: sex work, love and intimacy. Sociol Health Illn. 1999;21(3):290-309.
8. Simmons J, Singer M. I love you... and heroin: care and collusion among drug-using couples. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2006;1(1):7.
9. Rhodes T, Quirk A. Drug users' sexual relationships and the social organisation of risk: the sexual relationship as a site of risk management. Soc Sci Med. 1998;46(2):157-169.
10. Murray L, Moreno L, Rosario S, Ellen J, Sweat M, Kerrigan D. The role of relationship intimacy in consistent condom use among female sex workers and their regular paying partners in the Dominican Republic. AIDS Behav. 2007;11(3):463-470.
11. Bauermeister JA, Ventuneac A, Pingel E, Parsons JT. Spectrums of love: examining the relationship between romantic motivations and sexual risk among young gay and bisexual men. AIDS Behav. 2012;16(6):1549-1559.
12. Graham JM. Measuring love in romantic relationships: a meta-analysis. J Soc Pers Relat. 2011;28(6):748-771.
13. Sternberg RJ. A triangular theory of love. Psychol Rev. 1986;93(2):119-135.
14. Sternberg RJ. Construct validation of a triangular love scale. Eur J Soc Psychol. 1997;27(3):313-335.
15. Sternberg RJ, Grajek S. The nature of love. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1984;47(2):312-329.
16. Lemieux R, Hale JL. Intimacy, passion, and commitment in young romantic relationships: successfully measuring the triangular theory of love. Psychol Rep. 1999;85(2):497-503.
17. Larzelere RE, Huston TL. The Dyadic Trust Scale: toward understanding interpersonal trust in close relationships. J Marriage Fam. 1980;42(3):595-604.
18. Alaszewski A, Coxon K. Uncertainty in everyday life: risk, worry and trust. Health Risk Soc. 2009;11(3):201-207.
19. Rhodes T, Prodanović A, Žikić B, et al. Trust, disruption and responsibility in accounts of injecting equipment sharing and hepatitis C risk. Health Risk Soc. 2008;10(3):221-240.
20. Hirsch JS, Wardlow H. Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press; 2006.
21. Hirsch JS, Wardlow H, Smith DJ, Phinney H, Parikh S, Nathanson CA. The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press; 2009.
22. Padilla M, Hirsch JS, Munoz-Laboy M, Sember RE, Parker RG. Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press; 2007.
23. Sprecher S, Sedikides C. Gender differences in perceptions of emotionality: the case of close heterosexual relationships. Sex Roles. 1993;28(9-10):511-530.
24. Acitelli LK, Young AM. Gender and thought in relationships. In: Fletcher GJ, Fitness J, eds. Knowledge Structures in Close Relationships: A Social Psychological Approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1996:147-168.
25. Peplau LA, Gordon SL. Women and men in love: gender differences in close heterosexual relationships. In: O'Leary VE, Unger RK, Wallston BS, eds. Women, Gender and Social Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1985:257-291.
26. Ramos R, Ferreira-Pinto JB, Brouwer KC, et al. A tale of two cities: social and environmental influences shaping risk factors and protective behaviors in two Mexico-US border cities. Health Place. 2009;15(4):999-1005.
27. Rhodes T. Risk environments and drug harms: a social science for harm reduction approach. Int J Drug Policy. 2009;20(3):193-201.
28. Bucardo J, Brouwer KC, Magis-Rodríguez C, et al. Historical trends in the production and consumption of illicit drugs in Mexico: implications for the prevention of blood borne infections. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005;79(3):281-293.
29. Strathdee SA, Philbin MM, Semple SJ, et al. Correlates of injection drug use among female sex workers in two Mexico-US border cities. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008;92(1-3):132-140.
30. Rolon ML, Syvertsen JL, Robertson AM, et al. The influence of having children on HIV-related risk behaviors of female sex workers and their intimate male partners in two Mexico-US border cities. J Trop Pediatr. 2013;59(3):214-219.
31. Connell R. Gender, health and theory: conceptualizing the issue, in local and world perspective. Soc Sci Med. 2012;74(11):1675-1683.
32. Syvertsen JL, Robertson AM, Rolón ML, et al. "Eyes that don't see, heart that doesn't feel": coping with sex work in intimate relationships and its implications for HIV/STI prevention. Soc Sci Med. 2013;87:1-8.
33. Syvertsen JL, Robertson AM, Palinkas LA, Rangel MG, Martinez G, Strathdee SA. "Where sex ends and emotions begin": love and HIV risk among female sex workers and their intimate, non-commercial partners along the Mexico-US border. Cult Health Sex. 2013;15(5):540-554.
34. Robertson AM, Syvertsen JL, Martinez G, et al. Acceptability of vaginal microbicides among female sex workers and their intimate male partners in two Mexico-US border cities: a mixed methods analysis. Glob Public Health. 2013;8(5):619-633.
35. Syvertsen JL, Robertson AM, Abramovitz D, et al. Study protocol for the recruitment of female sex workers and their non-commercial partners into couple-based HIV research. BMC Public Health. 2012;12:136.
36. Biernacki P, Waldorf D. Snowball sampling: problems and techniques of chain referral sampling. Sociol Methods Res. 1981;10(2):141-163.
37. Watters J, Biernacki P. Targeted sampling: options for the study of hidden populations. Soc Probl. 1989;36(4):416-430.
38. Grzywacz JG, Hovey JD, Seligman LD, Arcury TA, Quandt SA. Evaluating short-form versions of the CES-D for measuring depressive symptoms among immigrants from Mexico. Hisp J Behav Sci. 2006;28(3):404-424.
39. Radloff LS. The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Meas. 1977;1(3):385-401.
40. Kenny DA, Kashy DA, Cook WL. Dyadic Data Analysis. New York, NY: Gilford; 2006.
41. Johnson HA, Zabriskie RB, Hill B. The contribution of couple leisure involvement, leisure time, and leisure satisfaction to marital satisfaction. Marriage Fam Rev. 2006;40(1):69-91.
42. Straus MA. Cross-cultural reliability and validity of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales: a study of university student dating couples in 17 nations. Cross-Cultural Res. 2004;38(4):407-432.
43. Straus MA, Douglas EM. A short form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales, and typologies for severity and mutuality. Violence Vict. 2004;19(5):507-520.
44. Amemiya T. Advanced Econometrics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1985.
45. Victora CG, Huttly SR, Fuchs SC, Olinto MT. The role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach. Int J Epidemiol. 1997;26(1):224-227.
46. Greenland S. Modeling and variable selection in epidemiologic analysis. Am J Public Health. 1989;79(3):340-349.
47. Akaike H. A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Trans Automat Contr. 1974;19(6):716-723.
48. Peplau LA. Human sexuality: how do men and women differ? Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2003;12(2):37-40.
49. Hirsch JS, Meneses S, Thompson B, Negroni M, Pelcastre B, Del Rio C. The inevitability of infidelity: sexual reputation, social geographies, and marital HIV risk in rural Mexico. Am J Public Health. 2007;97(6):986-996.
50. Robertson AM, Syvertsen JL, Amaro H, et al. Can't buy my love: a typology of female sex workers' commercial relationships in the Mexico-U.S. border region. J Sex Res. 2014;51(6):711-720.
51. Syvertsen JL, Robertson AM. Sex work, heroin injection, and HIV risk in Tijuana: a love story. Anthropol Consciousness. In press.
52. González-Guarda RM, Florom-Smith AL, Thomas T. A syndemic model of substance abuse, intimate partner violence, HIV infection, and mental health among Hispanics. Public Health Nurs. 2011;28(4):366-378.
53. Scott JC, Woods S, Matt G, et al. Neurocognitive effects of methamphetamine: a critical review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychol Rev. 2007;17(3):275-297.
54. Meyer JP, Springer SA, Altice FL. Substance abuse, violence, and HIV in women: a literature review of the syndemic. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011;20(7):991-1006.
55. Robertson AM, Syvertsen JL, Ulibarri MD, Rangel MG, Martinez G, Strathdee SA. Prevalence and correlates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers and their non-commercial male partners in two Mexico-USA border cities. J Urban Health. 2014;91(4):752-767.
56. Ulibarri MD, Salazar M, Robertson AM, et al. Relationship conflict among female sex workers and their intimate partners. Paper presented at: 19th International Conference and Summit on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma; September 10, 2014; San Diego, CA.
57. Corbett AM, Julia D-G, Helena H, Margaret RW. A little thing called love: condom use in high-risk primary heterosexual relationships. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2009;41(4):218-224.
58. El-Bassel N, Gilbert L, Witte S, Wu E, Hunt T, Remien RH. Couple-based HIV prevention in the United States: advantages, gaps, and future directions. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010;55(suppl 2):S98-S101.
59. El-Bassel N, Gilbert L, Witte S, Wu E, Chang M. Intimate partner violence and HIV among drug-involved women: contexts linking these two epidemics-challenges and implications for prevention and treatment. Subst Use Misuse. 2011;46(2-3):295-306.
60. Brown JL, Sales J, DiClemente R. Combination HIV prevention interventions: the potential of integrated behavioral and biomedical approaches. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2014;11(4):363-375.
61. Ware NC, Wyatt MA, Haberer JE, et al. What's love got to do with it? Explaining adherence to oral antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV serodiscordant couples. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012;59(5):463-468.
62. van der Straten A, Stadler J, Montgomery E, et al. Women's experiences with oral and vaginal pre-exposure prophylaxis: the VOICE-C Qualitative Study in Johannesburg, South Africa. PLoS ONE. 2014;9(2):e89118.
63. Shannon K, Goldenberg SM, Deering KN, Strathdee SA. HIV infection among female sex workers in concentrated and high prevalence epidemics: why a structural determinants framework is needed. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2014;9(2):174-182.
64. Kerrigan D, Kennedy CE, Morgan-Thomas R, et al. A community empowerment approach to the HIV response among sex workers: effectiveness, challenges, and considerations for implementation and scale-up. Lancet. 2015;385(9963):172-185.
65. Reeve BB, Willis G, Shariff-Marco SN, et al. Comparing cognitive interviewing and psychometric methods to evaluate a racial/ethnic discrimination scale. Field Methods. 2011;23(4):397-419.
66. Dressler WW, Borges CD, Balieiro MC, dos Santos JE. Measuring cultural consonance: examples with special reference to measurement theory in anthropology. Field Methods. 2005;17(4):331-355.