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Relationship power for women leads to higher rates of condom use.
2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in the United States have confirmed long-standing assumptions about relationship power structures and safe sex.
"Women's ability to negotiate safer sexual practices, particularly condom use, is a vital component of HIV/STD prevention strategies," according to J. Pulerwitz and colleagues, Population Council. "Gender-based power imbalances may constrain women's negotiation ability, yet few empirical studies have tested the hypothesis that sexual relationship power constitutes a key factor in condom use negotiation."
In their study, a "new measure - the Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS) -was applied" to data "collected from 388, mostly Latina, women at an urban community health centre in Massachusetts."
Pulerwitz and coauthors found that "women with high levels of relationship power were five times as likely as women with low levels to report consistent condom use, after controlling for sociodemographic and psychosocial variables (p
"Population attributable risk estimates indicate that 52% of the lack of consistent condom use among women can be attributed to low sexual relationship power," study data showed.
"The strong association between the Sexual ...
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