Tattooing and body piercing among adolescent detainees

Braithwaite, Ronald L.; Robillard, Alyssa G.; Woodring, Tammy; Stephens, Torrance; Arriola, Kimberly Jacob

doi:10.1016/s0899-3289(01)00061-x

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“…Similar data was found in our study in which the prevalence rate among unmarried people was higher than among other marital statuses. Thus, the presence of tattoos can be associated to a lifestyle with more risky activities, such as drug and alcohol abuse (5,17) . To summarize, these subjects would have an increased risk of contact with HCV and, consequently, they are more likely to get infected.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The available studies also pointed out a higher prevalence rate of HCV in patients who had a tattoo (8%-25%) and wore a piercing (14%-51%) (17,23) . It is said that the use of these esthetic accessories is often related to a more "underground" social behavior, which includes alcoholism, drug addiction and acts of felony (5,17) . The inexistence of a vaccine for HCV and the limited treatment of chronic cases make hepatitis C an important public health problem.…”

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confidence: 99%

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PREVALENCE OF RISK FACTORS FOR HEPATITIS C AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS: a population-based study in southern Brazil

Kvitko

Bastos

Pinto

2013

Arq. Gastroenterol.

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-Context -The hepatitis C is a severe public health problem worldwide because its consequences. Studies which aim at determining the prevalence of risk factors are really important to understand the problem. Objective -To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with some risk factors for the disease in a community, called Restinga, located in the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Method -This paper is based on a population-based cross-sectional study, with systematic sampling and proportional to the size of census tracts in which 3,391 adults answered a standardized questionnaire. Results -The prevalence of blood transfusion among the people who were interviewed was 14.98%, 60.83% of those had it before 1993. A total of 16.16% of the people had a tattoo, 7.23% wore a piercing, 1.09% said they had already injected illicit drugs and 12.39% reported previous hospitalization. Prevalence ratios showed that tattoos were more common among young people, piercings among women and illicit drugs among men. Conclusions -To summarize, the recognition of risk factors for hepatitis C enables proper screening of possible carriers of the hepatitis C virus, thus enabling a reduction in virus shedding. However, being only possible if health services are prepared to deal with hepatitis C virus, through education and public awareness.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

PREVALENCE OF RISK FACTORS FOR HEPATITIS C AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS: a population-based study in southern Brazil

Kvitko

Bastos

Pinto

2013

Arq. Gastroenterol.

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“…Because tattooing in the prison setting is illegal to avoid the spread of blood borne disease, tattoos are usually monochromatic (black), made with improvised devices, needles, homemade ink, and are often visible on the face, neck and hands. In a sample of adolescent detainees, 29% had at least one tattoo, 15% had two or more tattoos and 21% had tattoos that were administered nonprofessionally (Braithwaite, Robillard, Woodring, Stephens, & Arriola, 2001). Tattoos among prison populations may help serve the purpose of creating individual and group identities and asserting cultural differences among inmates (Demello, 1993).…”

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Tattoos and antisocial personality disorder

Cardasis

Huth‐Bocks

Silk

2008

Personality & Mental Health

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“…From that percentage 21% of those tattoos had been administered unprofessionally and 2% claimed to have knowingly shared needles when getting a tattoo [8]. This study was done in 2001 and the increase in the number of people getting tattoos and the number of people giving tattoos has significantly increased since then.…”

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confidence: 97%