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Pathways from Interpersonal Violence to Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Mixed-Method Study of Diverse Women

OBJECTIVE: This research sought to delineate the pathways that link experiences of abuse in women's lives to heightened risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. It was hypothesized that ethnically diverse abused women would not only be at greater risk for STI/HIV than their nonabused counterparts but would also experience unique, abuse-related risks. METHODS: In order to bridge the findings of previous studies examining abuse-generated sexual risk, this study employed a mixed-method approach that elicited data from both life-history interviews of 28 abused women and structured interviews with 215 abused and nonabused women. In the first stage of analysis, multiple coders used a combination of inductive/open and deductive/precoded text analysis to delineate patterns of sexual risks in transcripts of …

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