¶ … migration, settlement, and acculturation on diverse health behaviors and health outcomes influence sexual health, particularly HIV / AIDS, has remained unstudied as well as the West Indian group. Greater understanding is needed in how migration and acculturation may shape sexual risk and protection among the West Indian immigrants.
Hoffman, S. et al., (2011), Contexts of risk and networks of protection: NYC West Indian immigrants' perceptions of migration and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases, Culture, Health, and Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention, and Cure, 13(5): 513-528, retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407273/pdf/nihms-290674.pdf.
Kind of Research
Descriptive data structured from open ended interviews with mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.
Purpose
To contribute to building a testable theory of sexual risks among West Indian immigrants and, more generally, to development of theory around migration and sexual health.
Design
Procedure
Audio taped interviews for quantitative quality assurance and qualitative for subsequent transcription. Quantitative data and analysis: migration characteristics of travel to countries of interviews measuring sexual norms and contexts as well as participant perception of normative shifts to influence sexual behavior and risk for HIV.
Validity was measured by audio tapes transcribed and cleaned of participant identifiers and development of major and sub-codes and code rules, where text was read by two investigators.
Variables
Independent variable -- West Indian immigrants. Dependent variables -- perception of circumstances and sexual risk, ethnicity of…
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