Abstract:
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Medical advancements have redefined HIV/AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic illness, raising many new questions regarding the role of vocational rehabilitation (VR) in the lives of individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Barriers to employment, including measures of job confidence, feelings of stigma associated with HIV, and health perceptions, are best conceptualized as latent variables, as is the outcome measure of how employment has impacted one's risky health behaviors. These latent variables are estimated through the measurement model in a SEM and are then used in the structural model. In our present study, the structural model estimated, first, the effect of the latent barriers to employment on the binary measure of whether VR services were used and, second, how these latent barriers and the use of VR services impact three exogenous (and quantitative) outcomes of health risk behavior, access to medical/mental health services and use of supplemental employment services. Thus, we simultaneously modeled a system of one probit regression and three linear regression models. The methodology and results will be presented.
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