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Role of Black men's displacement due to incarceration & gentrification on sexual HIV risk: Developing the Psychosocial Impact of Displacement scale
Methods: We analyzed 9 focus groups with predominantly low-income, heterosexual-identified, Black men, ages 18 – 48. Inductive thematic analyses informed current survey item development and subsequent psychometric testing.
Results: Themes of neighborhood context, displacement and sexual risk include: (1) Incarceration disrupts social networks and limits employment, housing and educational opportunities; (2) Seeking economic stability and personal safety outrank HIV prevention; (3) Gentrification disrupts social networks; (4) Police harassment in renewed urban places stymies social cohesion, exacerbates criminal justice involvement, and increases psychological distress.
Conclusions: The impact of displacement helps answer how the context of place affects health. To this end, our findings on neighborhood context, displacement and sexual risk among Black men are integral to the PID scale currently in development.
Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programsPublic health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Describe a mixed methods approach to developing a context-specific measure of Psychosocial Impact of Displacement (PID) for urban Black men.
Explain the PID scale development process within the social-structural context of Black men’s lives (e.g., unemployment, racial discrimination, poverty).
Discuss implications of the PID scale for further research and the development of HIV interventions for Black men and their sexual partners.
Keyword(s): African American, HIV/AIDS
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the project director and postdoctoral scientist for this study.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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