The Connections of Mental Health Problems, Violent Life Experiences, and the Social Milieu of the “Stroll” with the HIV Risk Behaviors of Female Street Sex Workers

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary L. Surratt ◽  
Steven P. Kurtz ◽  
Jason C. Weaver ◽  
James A. Inciardi
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 379-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick S. Zimmerman ◽  
Eric G. Benotsch ◽  
Sarah Shoemaker ◽  
Daniel J. Snipes ◽  
Laurie Cathers ◽  
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AIDS Care ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1019-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaobing Su ◽  
Xiaoming Li ◽  
Liying Zhang ◽  
Danhua Lin ◽  
Chen Zhang ◽  
...  

AIDS Care ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1335-1342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra E. Larios ◽  
Remedios Lozada ◽  
Steffanie A. Strathdee ◽  
Shirley J. Semple ◽  
Scott Roesch ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traci L. Weinstein ◽  
Shaobing Su ◽  
Xiaoming Li ◽  
Liying Zhang ◽  
Danhua Lin ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 002076402110175
Author(s):  
Roberto Rusca ◽  
Ike-Foster Onwuchekwa ◽  
Catherine Kinane ◽  
Douglas MacInnes

Background: Relationships are vital to recovery however, there is uncertainty whether users have different types of social networks in different mental health settings and how these networks may impact on users’ wellbeing. Aims: To compare the social networks of people with long-term mental illness in the community with those of people in a general adult in-patient unit. Method: A sample of general adult in-patients with enduring mental health problems, aged between 18 and 65, was compared with a similar sample attending a general adult psychiatric clinic. A cross-sectional survey collected demographic data and information about participants’ social networks. Participants also completed the Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale to examine well-being and the Significant Others Scale to explore their social network support. Results: The study recruited 53 participants (25 living in the community and 28 current in-patients) with 339 named as important members of their social networks. Both groups recorded low numbers in their social networks though the community sample had a significantly greater number of social contacts (7.4 vs. 5.4), more monthly contacts with members of their network and significantly higher levels of social media use. The in-patient group reported greater levels of emotional and practical support from their network. Conclusions: People with serious and enduring mental health problems living in the community had a significantly greater number of people in their social network than those who were in-patients while the in-patient group reported greater levels of emotional and practical support from their network. Recommendations for future work have been made.


2020 ◽  
pp. 136078042096598
Author(s):  
Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen

This article provides new knowledge on the social background of women involved in indoor prostitution by integrating a novel data source in terms of administrative register data. Questions concerning dynamics of entry and whether sex-sellers have a more socially marginalised position than others have long been debated in research. Based on register data on 1128 female sex-sellers, the article takes an important step towards answering such questions by analysing and comparing the social background of sex-sellers and of a matched sample of Danish women (n = 73,320). The study includes descriptive insights into a number of indicators, including demographics, out-of-home placement, mental health problems, drug problems, incarceration, educational attainment and labour market attachment. Multivariate regression models are used to examine potential predictors of involvement in prostitution. The findings show that indoor sex-sellers often come from a socially marginalised background and experience multiple social vulnerabilities in both childhood and adulthood. Furthermore, the study shows strong associations between indicators of social vulnerability and selling sex. Especially indicators of an unstable childhood environment (e.g. out-of-home placements and mothers’ incarceration) and indicators of social marginalisation in adulthood (e.g. incarceration and mental health problems) have proven to have a strong association with involvement in prostitution as an adult.


2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (9) ◽  
pp. 1447-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Needle ◽  
Karen Kroeger ◽  
Hrishikesh Belani ◽  
Angeli Achrekar ◽  
Charles D. Parry ◽  
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