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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Condom Use-Related Factors: Associations with Heterosexual Men’s Consistent Condom Use

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Intimate partner violence victimization has been linked to sexual HIV risk behavior among heterosexual women. The unique role of perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) in sexual risk behavior among men has not been studied as well. Based on interviews with 518 heterosexual men recruited via street-intercept between 2005 and 2007 in New York City, we assessed the relationship between perpetration of IPV against a main female partner and inconsistent condom use with that same partner, while controlling for condom use-related factors. Multivariate logistic regression revealed that men who perpetrated physical IPV were half as likely to report consistent condom use as compared with men who did not use violence, while controlling for sociodemographic, condom use-related and other factors. Physical IPV perpetration by heterosexual men makes an independent contribution to consistent condom use. Designing interventions for heterosexual men that simultaneously address both IPV and sexual risk behaviors is critical.

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks are due the team who made this research possible, including: Ebele Benjamin, Sandra DelVecchio, Vincent Edwards, Monique Kusick, Harlem Community and Academic Partnership, and the IMPACT participants. The authors also acknowledge two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and Margaret M. Paul for editorial assistance with the final draft. Funding for this research was provided by NIH/NIDA (K01 DA-020774: Frye; DA018061 and DA017020: Vlahov and Ompad).

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  1. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Victoria Frye

  2. Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Victoria Frye, Danielle Ompad & David Vlahov

  3. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA

    Christina Chan

  4. Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, USA

    Beryl Koblin

  5. Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Sandro Galea

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Frye, V., Ompad, D., Chan, C. et al. Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Condom Use-Related Factors: Associations with Heterosexual Men’s Consistent Condom Use. AIDS Behav 15, 153–162 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-009-9659-2

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