Individual, Interpersonal, and Structural Power: Associations With Condom Use in a Sample of Young Adult Latinos
Stokes, L.R.; Harvey, S.Marie.; Warren, J.T.
Health Care for Women International 37(2): 216-236
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0739-9332 PMID: 25868753 DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2015.1038345Document Number: 626500
Interviews were conducted with 480 sexually active Latino young adults from four rural counties in Oregon. We examined relationships between three levels of power (individual, interpersonal, and structural) and consistent condom use. Condom use self-efficacy and sexual decision-making, examples of individual and interpersonal measures of power, respectively, were associated with increased odds of consistent condom use among both men and women. Among men only, increasing relationship control, an interpersonal measure of power, was associated with lower odds of consistent condom use. Among women only, increasing medical mistrust, a structural measure of power, was associated with increased odds of consistent condom use.