Sex-related alcohol expectancies predict sexual risk behavior among severely and persistently mentally ill adults. Psychol Addict Behav 2002 Mar;16(1):64-7
Date
04/06/2002Pubmed ID
11934088DOI
10.1037/0893-164X.16.1.64Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0036127337 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 19 CitationsAbstract
Three hundred three adults (57% male, average age 42 years) with severe and persistent mental illness receiving treatment at community mental health clinics completed a survey, which included B. C. Leigh's (1990) sex-related alcohol expectancy scale and measures of alcohol use and sexual risk behavior. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses, controlling for drinking behavior, revealed that participants with stronger expectancies that drinking would lead to enhanced sexual experience were more likely to have drank prior to intercourse and that, among participants who drank prior to intercourse, those with stronger expectancies that alcohol would lead to riskier sexual behavior were more likely to have engaged in sexual risk behavior. Implications for preventing HIV infection among people with severe mental illness are discussed.
Author List
Weinhardt LS, Otto-Salaj LL, Brondino MJ, Norberg MM, Kalichman SCAuthor
Lance S. Weinhardt MS,PhD Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Community and Behavioral Health Promotion in the Joseph. J. Zilber School of Public Health department at University of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdultAlcoholic Intoxication
Chronic Disease
Female
HIV Infections
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Mental Disorders
Risk Factors
Safe Sex
United States
