Journal article
HIV TESTING AMONG SEXUALLY EXPERIENCED ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER YOUNG WOMEN Association With Routine Gynecologic Care
Women's health issues, v 19(4), pp 279-288
01 Jul 2009
PMID: 19589477
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Abstract
Purpose. To describe the proportion of HIV testing in the past 12 months among sexually experienced Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women and to investigate to what extent routine gynecologic care (RGC) increases HIV testing among APT women.
Methods. Data were derived from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Analyses were limited to 7,576 sexually experienced women (White, n = 4,482 [68.5%]; Black, n = 1,693 [25.6%]; Hispanic, n = 923 [13.9%]; API, n = 478 [7.2%]) aged 18-27 years. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the association between RGC and HIV testing after controlling for predisposing, need, and enabling factors.
Findings. On average, 22.8% (n = 1,504) of sexually experienced women reported HIV testing in the past year. API women had the lowest proportion of testing (17.2%), and Black women had the highest (26.2%). Overall, 60.2% of API women reported receiving RGC; however, only 15.5% of API who received RGC reported HIV testing. After controlling for covariates, significantly positive associations were found for White, Black and Hispanic women between RGC and HIV testing; however, there was no evidence that RGC was associated with HIV testing among API women.
Conclusion. Our data suggest that RGC does increase HIV testing among API women. To eliminate disparities in HIV testing service utilization among API women, appropriate efforts should be directed to better understand the barriers and facilitators of HIV testing among this population.
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- Title
- HIV TESTING AMONG SEXUALLY EXPERIENCED ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER YOUNG WOMEN Association With Routine Gynecologic Care
- Creators
- Hyeouk Chris Hahm - Boston UniversityIn Han Song - Yonsei UniversityAl Ozonoff - Boston UniversityJessica C. Sassani - Boston University
- Publication Details
- Women's health issues, v 19(4), pp 279-288
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- PA 05-015 / PHS HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; United States Public Health Service P60 AA013759 / NIAAA NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) P01HD031921 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) P60AA013759 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) P01-HD31921; P01 HD031921 / NICHD NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000268486400007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-67649652336
- Other Identifier
- 991022135714904721
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