Forgetting as a cause of incomplete reporting of sexual and drug injection partners
Forgetting as a cause of incomplete reporting of sexual and drug injection partners
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DOI：
10.1097/00007435-199903000-00008
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发表时间：
1999-03-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Kulasingam, S
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作者：
Brewer, DD;Garrett, SB;Kulasingam, S
背景和目标：传染病的伴侣通知和社会网络研究通常涉及采访人们，以引出他们的性伴侣和/或药物注射伴侣。在这些情况下，对性伴侣的不完整报告将严重阻碍了解和控制性传播疾病、艾滋病毒和其他感染传播的努力。个人在访谈中可能没有说出他们的性伴侣的名字有很多原因，这项研究提供了一个全面的评估，将遗忘作为不完整报告性伴侣和注射伴侣的原因。华盛顿西雅图的100五十六人在两次访谈中回忆了他们的性伴侣和/或注射伴侣，两次访谈间隔1周或3个月。重复的，非特异性的提示，平均来说，10%的所有合作伙伴在采访中回忆受试者表现出实质性的忘记合作伙伴的合作伙伴类型，回忆期，和四个独立的测量方法，高达72%的伴侣被遗忘回忆起的合作伙伴的数量和遗忘的主观评估是中度到良好的预测忘记的合作伙伴的数量。回忆和遗忘的合作伙伴没有显着不同的几个合作伙伴变量，结论：遗忘是一个主要因素，在不完整的报告性和注射合作伙伴。面试官应反复提示，以最大限度地回忆合作伙伴。重新面谈是目前尽可能全面地确定伴侣的最佳方法，应重点关注那些报告有许多伴侣和/或感觉到他们有其他伴侣但记不起来的人。
Background and Objectives: Partner notification and social network studies of infectious disease often involve interviewing people to elicit their sexual and/or drug injection partners. Incomplete reporting of partners in these contexts would significantly hamper efforts to understand and control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and other infections, There are many reasons why individuals might not name their partners in interviews, This study provides a comprehensive assessment of forgetting as a cause of incomplete reporting of sexual and injection partners.Study Design: One hundred fifty-six persons in Seattle,Washington, at presumed high risk for HIV recalled their sexual and/or injection partners in two interviews separated by 1 week or 3 months.Results: Repeated, nonspecific prompting elicited, on average, 10% of all partners recalled in an interview Subjects displayed substantial forgetting of partners across partner types, recall periods, and four independent measurement approaches, with up to 72% of partners forgotten. The number of partners recalled and subjective assessment of forgetting are moderate to good predictors of the number of partners forgotten. Recalled and forgotten partners do not differ dramatically on any of several partner variables,Conclusions: Forgetting is a primary factor in the incomplete reporting of sexual and injection partners. Interviewers should prompt repeatedly to maximize recall of partners. Reinterviewing is currently the best method available for identifying partners as completely as possible and should be focused on individuals who report many partners and/or sense they have other partners they cannot recall.