COVID-19 and influenza vaccine uptake in women with criminal-legal system involvement.

Objective: Given their vulnerable health status and resource constraints, the perspectives of women with criminal-legal involvement (WCLI) are important but not usually represented in the literature on vaccine interest and vaccine hesitancy. This study aims to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine affected the influenza vaccine uptake among WCLI.

Methods: A cross-sectional secondary analysis was conducted using data collected from the Tri-City study, which followed WCLI in three U.

Getting started in jail, prison, and legal system research.

Extensive health inequities exist for persons with criminal-legal involvement in the USA. Researchers, both novice and experienced, are critical in documenting these inequities and implementing programs that address the many health and social problems of this population. However, working with currently or formerly incarcerated persons brings new challenges to researchers that may have not been previously considered as necessary.

Differences in abortion-related knowledge among women involved in the criminal legal system in three US cities.

Objective: We examined if abortion-related knowledge among women with criminal legal system involvement differed in three U.S. cities in states with varying abortion policies.

A Systematic Evaluation of Barriers and Facilitators to the Provision of Services for Justice-Involved Women.

The community health delivery system (CHDS) are vital agencies to the success of integration and the provision of services to improve the health and well-being of justice-involved women. Many agencies face barriers and challenges in providing services to vulnerable populations, such as justice-involved women, and, as a result, often offer individual rather than coordinator care. Thus, it is necessary to explore CHDS systemic barriers and challenges to identify opportunities for coordinated care.

Criminal Justice-Involved Women Navigate COVID-19: Notes From the Field.

In March-April, 2020, we communicated with a cohort of criminal justice-involved (CJI) women to see how they were navigating COVID-19, chronic illness, homelessness, and shelter-in-place orders in Oakland, Birmingham, and Kansas City. We report on conversations with = 35 women (out of the cohort of 474 women) and our own observations from ongoing criminal justice involvement studies. Women reported barriers to protecting themselves given widespread unstable housing and complex health needs, though many tried to follow COVID-19 prevention recommendations.

Justice-involved women's preferences for an internet-based Sexual Health Empowerment curriculum.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into justice-involved women's preferences for an internet-based Sexual Health Empowerment (SHE) curriculum.

Design/methodology/approach: The authors analyzed data from four focus groups conducted with 52 women in a minimum-security county jail in a Midwestern US city.

Findings: Women reported daily access to the internet while in the community and use of the internet for searching about health concerns.

Validating self-reported cervical cancer screening among women leaving jails.

Background: Despite women with criminal justice involvement reporting routine Papanicolaou (Pap) testing, significant disparities in cervical cancer outcomes exist when compared to women without criminal justice involvement. A possible reason for the discrepancy is that this group of women may be misreporting Pap testing. The objective of this study was to validate self-reported cervical cancer screening among women leaving jails.

Retention Strategies in Working With Justice-Involved Women.

Research-based findings with vulnerable populations are strengthened by strong retention rates at the time of postintervention data collection. Women in the criminal justice system face a variety of gender-specific challenges including histories of childhood and adult sexual and physical abuse, substance abuse, untreated mental health problems, and chronic housing insecurity that can hinder follow-up of a research sample. The authors highlight a variety of retention strategies that they successfully used in their work with women following incarceration in local county jails.

Feminism and Bourdieusian Social Theory in a Sexual Health Empowerment Project with Incarcerated and Recently Released Women.

Theory is often downplayed or omitted in the research and scholarly literature around public health interventions in carceral settings. Our Sexual Health Empowerment (SHE) project was an education intervention and ethnographic study that aimed to reduce cervical cancer risk among women with histories of incarceration. In this article, we describe our application of concepts from feminist theory and bourdieusian social theory to the design, planning, and delivery of SHE.

Corrigendum to "Impact of a brief intervention on cervical health literacy: A waitlist control study with jailed women" [Prev. Med. Rep. 6 (2017) 314-321].

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Impact of a brief intervention on cervical health literacy: A waitlist control study with jailed women.

Jailed women are four-five times more likely to have had cervical cancer compared to women without criminal justice histories. Previous research has shown that an important contributor to cervical cancer risk, and perhaps lack of follow-up, is incarcerated women's low health literacy about broader reproductive health issues. Little work has been done to address this disparity.

Adapting an HIV Risk Reduction Curriculum: Processes and Outcomes.

Becoming a Responsible Teen (BART) is a community-based, HIV risk reduction curriculum shown to increase safer sex behaviors among African American adolescents. However, BART does not address common barriers to sexual health care access, which may limit program efficacy. We used a community-engaged adaptation process to maximize program relevance and health outcomes by incorporating a broad ecological perspective.

Accessing General and Sexual Healthcare: Experiences of Urban Youth.

Urban adolescents face many barriers to health care that contribute to health disparities in rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancy. Designing interventions to increase access to health care is a complex process that requires understanding the perspectives of adolescents. We conducted six focus groups to explore the attitudes and beliefs about general and sexual health care access as well as barriers to care among urban, economically disadvantaged adolescents.

Views on human papillomavirus vaccination: a mixed-methods study of urban youth.

While the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has potential to protect against the majority of HPV-associated cancers, vaccination rates in the United States remain low. Racial/ethnic and economic disparities exist for HPV vaccination completion rates. We conducted a mixed-methods study using the theory of planned behavior framework to explore attitudes and beliefs about HPV vaccination among urban, economically disadvantaged adolescents.