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Who Is Supporting Homeless Youth? Predictors of Support in Personal Networks
Author(s): Kayla De La Haye, Harold D. Green, David P. Kennedy, Annie Jie Zhou, Daniela Golinelli, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Joan S. Tucker
Publication Date: 2012
Homeless youth lack the traditional support networks of their housed peers, which increases their risk for poor health outcomes. Using a multilevel dyadic analytic approach, this study identified characteristics of social contacts, relationships, and social networks associated with the provision of tangible and emotional support to homeless youth (N = 419, M age = 20.09, SD = 2.80). Support providers were likely to be family members, sex partners...
Substance Use and Other Risk Factors for Unprotected Sex: Results from an Event-Based Study of Homeless Youth
Author(s): Joan S. Tucker, Gery W. Ryan, Daniela. Golinelli, Brett. Ewing, Suzanne L. Wenzel, David P. Kennedy, Harold D. Green, Annie. Zhou
Publication Date: 2011
This study used an event-based approach to understand condom use in a probability sample of 309 homeless youth recruited from service and street sites in Los Angeles County. Condom use was significantly less likely when hard drug use preceded sex, the relationship was serious, the partners talked about “pulling out”, or sex occurred in a non-private place (and marginally less likely when heavier drinking preceded sex, or the partnership was monog...
Behavioral Health and Social Normative Influence: Correlates of Concurrent Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexually-Active Homeless Men
Author(s): Suzanne L. Wenzel, Harmony. Rhoades, Hsun-Ta. Hsu, Daniela. Golinelli, Joan S. Tucker, David P. Kennedy, Harold D. Green, Brett. Ewing
Publication Date: 2011
Sexual concurrency poses significant HIV/STI transmission risk. The correlates of concurrency have not been examined among homeless men. A representative sample of 305 heterosexually active homeless men utilizing meal programs in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles reported on their mental health, substance use, and social network characteristics. Nearly 40% of men reported concurrency with one of their four most recent sex partners. Results indicat...
Association of childhood abuse with homeless women's social networks
Author(s): Harold D. Green, Joan S. Tucker, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Daniela. Golinelli, Kennedy, Annie J. Zhou
Publication Date: 2012
OBJECTIVE: Childhood abuse has been linked to negative sequelae for women later in life including drug and alcohol use and violence as victim or perpetrator and may also affect the development of women's social networks. Childhood abuse is prevalent among at-risk populations of women (such as the homeless) and thus may have a stronger impact on their social networks. We conducted a study to: (a) develop a typology of sheltered homeless women's so...
The social context of homeless men's substance use
Author(s): Harmony Rhoades, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Daniela Golinelli, Joan S. Tucker, David P. Kennedy, Harold D. Green, Annie Zhou
Publication Date: 2011
Background Homeless men may be at particular risk for the negative health effects of substance use. This cross-sectional study investigates the individual and personal network risk factors associated with substance use in this vulnerable population. Methods Participants were a representative probability sample of 305 heterosexually active homeless men interviewed from meal programs in the Skid Row region of Los Angeles, CA. Interviews as...