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  • Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study, 1990

    Investigators: David Kanouse

    Publication Date: March 22, 2016

Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study, 1990 Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study, 1990

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Investigators interviewed a stratified probability sample of 1,024 female street prostitutes in Los Angeles County between May 1990 and February 1991 to study behavior that is linked to transmission of HIV and other STDs. Although the study also collected blood samples from a subsample of 638 women to examine markers for HIV infection, as well as past syphilis and hepatitis B infection, the original investigator did not include blood sample data in this public use dataset.

The specific aims of this study were to:

develop numerical estimates of the size of the prostitute population in Los Angeles County and its distribution by predominant mode of solicitation of customers; characterize prostitute career patterns; perform HIV antibody testing to determine the prevalence of HIV infection in this population and its subgroups; measure the prevalence and incidence of specific sexual and drug-related risk behaviors and prevention behaviors and determine how these are related to prostitute characteristics and risk and prevention behaviors; and compare the characteristics of the population of prostitutes with those subgroups most likely to be recruited in convenience samples (e.g., from jails or STD clinics).

The present study is unique in describing the characteristics, risk behavior and serological status of a probability sample of street prostitutes from a major metropolitan area of the U.S., which is also in AIDS epicenter.

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  • 909 variables
  • 1,024 subjects
  • Raw Data, SPSS and SAS Program Statements, SPSS Portable File, and Instrument/Codebook
  • User’s Guide to the Machine-Readable Files
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