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Using The Theory Of Planned Behavior To Understand The STD Risk
Behaviors Of Incarcerated Women
Criminal Justice and Behavior 2003;30(2):187-209.
Hogben M, St. Lawrence JS, Hennessy MH, Eldridge GD.
Abstract
Women in American correctional facilities make up an at-risk group for STDs/HIV,
both in terms of disease history and STD risk behaviors. Using a sample of
incarcerated women in two southern states, a theoretically driven model of
incarcerated women’s risk behaviors prior to and during incarceration
was described and tested. The model is based on links among beliefs, attitudes,
perceived behavioral control and norms, and behavioral intentions. Results
indicated that beliefs related to condoms were associated with favorable
attitudes toward condoms. Condom attitudes were related to positive behavioral
intentions to use condoms and also mediated some belief/intention associations.
Perceived behavioral control and norms were also associated with intentions;
norms were especially strongly related. The model provides a structure for
measuring the predicates of incarcerated women’s risk behaviors and
for testing the efficacy of risk reduction interventions.