| Summary: | 碩士 === 台北醫學院 === 醫學研究所 === 89 === Method: This study intended to use the PRECEDE model to examine the voluntary HIV testing behaviors of female drug abusers. There were 1185 participants recruited in this study. Data regarding participants’ background, HIV risk behaviors, voluntary HIV testing experience , and factors of the PRECEDE model were collected. Univariate analysis and multiple regression were performed.
Result: Only 92 (8%) of the participants self-reported that they had taken voluntary HIV testing in their lifetime. 32.2% of the participants had ever engaged in needle sharing with other intravenous drug users, 13.3% had ever traded sex for drug or money, 29.2% had multiple sex partners and 59.7% hadn’t condom using habit during sex in the past one year. Perceived benefits of taking HIV testing, understanding about information of HIV testing, peer factor, spouse (sexual partner) factor, and the intention to take voluntary HIV testing of participants who had ever taken voluntary HIV testing were significant higher than who hadn’t, but perceived barriers of taking HIV testing of participants was significant lower. Besides this, perceived susceptibility of HIV infection, perceived benefit and barrier of taking HIV testing, and spouse (sexual partner) factor were significant predictors of the voluntary HIV testing will, but perceived severity of AIDS, understanding about information of HIV testing, and peer factor weren’t. The PRECEDE model can explain 16.6% variances of the intention to take voluntary HIV testing.
Conclusions: According to the result, the author suggested that effective HIV protective strategies for female drug abusers should be toward increasing their recognition of HIV risk behaviors, promoting the benefit of HIV testing, and accelerating the protective information spread among this population.
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