Alcohol and sexuality research in the AIDS era: Trends in publication activity, target populations and research design
Alcohol and sexuality research in the AIDS era: Trends in publication activity, target populations and research design
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DOI：
10.1007/s10461-006-9130-6
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
George, William H.
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作者：
Hendershot, Christian S.;George, William H.
关于酒精和人类性行为之间关系的研究已经激增，部分原因是为了描述酒精在艾滋病毒风险行为中的作用。这项研究提供了一个描述性的审查酒精性行为的文献，从264个确定的研究摘要，估计随着时间的推移，在出版活动，目标人群和艾滋病毒相关研究的患病率的变化。我们还通过估计实验与非实验研究的流行率来检查方法学趋势。调查结果显示，自20世纪80年代中期以来，研究活动和研究人群的多样性大大增加，并突出了艾滋病毒相关研究的出现，成为酒精性行为研究工作的一个焦点。结果还表明，利用实验方法的研究比例大幅下降，部分原因是在酒精和艾滋病毒风险行为的研究中经常使用非实验方法。我们讨论的影响和审查的作用，在评估酒精和性风险行为之间的因果关系的实验。
Research addressing relationships between alcohol and human sexuality has proliferated, due in part to efforts to characterize alcohol's role in HIV risk behavior. This study provides a descriptive review of the alcohol-sexuality literature, using abstracts from 264 identified studies to estimate changes in publication activity, target populations, and the prevalence of HIV-related studies over time. We also examine methodological trends by estimating the prevalence of experimental vs. non-experimental studies. Findings show considerable increases in research activity and diversity of populations studied since the mid-1980's and highlight the emergence of HIV-related studies as a focal point of alcohol-sexuality research efforts. Results also demonstrate a substantial decline in the proportion of studies utilizing experimental methods, in part because of frequent use of non-experimental approaches in studies of alcohol and HIV risk behavior. We discuss implications and review the role of experiments in evaluating causal relationships between alcohol and sexual risk behavior.