HIV prevention interventions to reduce sexual risk for African Americans: the influence of community-level stigma and psychological processes.

ABSTRACT: Interventions to improve public health may benefit from consideration of how environmental contexts can facilitate or hinder their success. We examined the extent to which efficacy of interventions to improve African Americans' condom use practices was moderated by two indicators of structural stigma-Whites' attitudes toward African Americans and residential segregation in the communities where interventions occurred. A previously published meta-analytic database was re-analyzed to examine the interplay of community-level stigma with the psychological processes implied by intervention content in influencing intervention efficacy. All studies were conducted in the United States and included samples that were at least 50% African American. Whites' attitudes were drawn from the American Natio

SUBMITTER: Reid AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3920181 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature