a Department of Social Work , Central Connecticut State University , New Britain , CT , USA.
Soc Work Public Health. 2019;34(3):260-278. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2019.1589612. Epub 2019 Mar 27.
African American/Black women's rate of HIV infection has been explored along several variables. Understanding how the epidemic affects different ethnic groups of women is crucial in developing effective prevention strategies. There remains a gap in knowledge around the effects of ethnicity on the rate of infection among the culturally diverse groups of women living in the U.S. subsumed under the label African American/Black. The purpose of the study is to explore whether cultural differences exist among African Jamaican and African American women that may affect their empowerment and condom-use intentions, placing them at a more heightened risk of contracting HIV. The results indicate that women's sense of power, either in their relationships or within themselves, was not related to their condom-use self-efficacy or condom-use intentions. Although none of the five hypotheses was fully supported, related significant findings suggest that women's level of acculturation was negatively related to their intentions to negotiate condom use. The longer women were in the United States, the lower their condom-use intentions.
非裔美国/黑人女性的艾滋病毒感染率已经在多个变量方面进行了研究。了解该流行病如何影响不同族裔的女性，对于制定有效的预防策略至关重要。在美国生活的文化多元化的非裔美国/黑人女性群体中，关于种族对感染率的影响，人们的知识仍然存在差距。本研究的目的是探讨牙买加裔非裔美国人和非裔美国女性之间是否存在文化差异，这些差异可能会影响她们的赋权和使用避孕套的意愿，使她们面临更高的感染艾滋病毒的风险。结果表明，女性在人际关系或自身中的力量感与她们使用避孕套的自我效能感或使用避孕套的意愿无关。尽管没有一个假设得到完全支持，但相关的重要发现表明，女性的文化适应程度与她们协商使用避孕套的意愿呈负相关。女性在美国的时间越长，使用避孕套的意愿越低。
