Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
J Urban Health. 2011 Aug;88(4):759-66. doi: 10.1007/s11524-011-9570-9.
Unstable housing is related to a range of health problems including substance abuse, poor mental health, and HIV. Little is known about how sexual partners' attributes influence access to resources such as housing. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between sexual network characteristics and improvements in housing situation among a sample of drug users using a longitudinal design. Size of one's sex network was not associated with housing change. However, having a main partner and having a sex partner who lent money was associated with moving from a homeless state at baseline to being housed at follow-up. Also, having a sex partner who was a drug user was associated with decrease in the odds of improving one's housing situation.
住房不稳定与一系列健康问题有关，包括药物滥用、心理健康状况不佳和 HIV。性伴侣的特征如何影响获得住房等资源，这方面的了解甚少。本研究的目的是通过纵向设计，考察性网络特征与药物使用者住房状况改善之间的关系。性网络的规模与住房变化无关。然而，有一个主要伴侣，以及有一个借钱给你的性伴侣，与从基线时无家可归状态转变为随访时的有房状态有关。此外，有一个吸毒的性伴侣与改善住房状况的几率降低有关。
