TY - JOUR
T1 - HIV prevention for youths in foster care
T2 - Understanding future orientation and intended risk behaviors
AU - Polgar, Michael
AU - Auslander, Wendy
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD 35445) and by the Annie E. Casey Foundation with grants to the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - Youths in foster care face challenges, including making healthy behavioral choices. Empirical data from a sample show how intentions to engage in HIV-risk behaviors vary among youths in foster care. Youths who hold safer attitudes about prevention and those who have fewer peers with behavioral problems more often intend safer behavior. Among young women, a stronger orientation toward the future is associated with fewer behavioral intentions that involve HIV risk. Youths in foster care who are in higher grades, express greater self-efficacy, or have fewer problems with mental health or substance abuse express a stronger and more hopeful orientation toward the future. These research results support the application of integrated health behavior theory among youths in foster care, showing that preventive attitudes, well-behaved peers, and a stronger orientation toward the future are associated with fewer behavioral intentions that precede HIV risk.
AB - Youths in foster care face challenges, including making healthy behavioral choices. Empirical data from a sample show how intentions to engage in HIV-risk behaviors vary among youths in foster care. Youths who hold safer attitudes about prevention and those who have fewer peers with behavioral problems more often intend safer behavior. Among young women, a stronger orientation toward the future is associated with fewer behavioral intentions that involve HIV risk. Youths in foster care who are in higher grades, express greater self-efficacy, or have fewer problems with mental health or substance abuse express a stronger and more hopeful orientation toward the future. These research results support the application of integrated health behavior theory among youths in foster care, showing that preventive attitudes, well-behaved peers, and a stronger orientation toward the future are associated with fewer behavioral intentions that precede HIV risk.
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U2 - 10.1080/15381500903417646
DO - 10.1080/15381500903417646
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77949345518
SN - 1538-1501
VL - 8
SP - 397
EP - 413
JO - Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services
JF - Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services
IS - 4
ER -