TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience of Forced Sex and Subsequent Sexual, Drug, and Mental Health Outcomes
T2 - African American and Hispanic Women in the Southeastern United States
AU - Jones, Deborah
AU - Marks, Gary
AU - Villar-Loubet, Olga
AU - Weiss, Stephen M.
AU - O’Daniels, Christine
AU - Borkowf, Craig B.
AU - Simpson, Cathy
AU - Adimora, Ada A.
AU - McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - Objectives: This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N = 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event. Methods: Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%). Results: Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling. Conclusions: Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.
AB - Objectives: This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N = 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event. Methods: Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%). Results: Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling. Conclusions: Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.
KW - HIV prevention
KW - Sexual violence
KW - cross-cultural studies
KW - quantitative studies
KW - women
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U2 - 10.1080/19317611.2014.959631
DO - 10.1080/19317611.2014.959631
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84941175923
VL - 27
SP - 249
EP - 263
JO - International Journal of Sexual Health
JF - International Journal of Sexual Health
SN - 1931-7611
IS - 3
ER -