Assessing & Improving the Measurement of Sexual Behavior

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• 批准号: 7126890
• 负责人: BARBARA Sena MENSCH
• 金额: $ 45.63万
• 依托单位: POPULATION COUNCIL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-28 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7126890
• 关键词: Africa; Brazil; Caribbean islands; HIV infections; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; health behavior; human subject; population survey; sex behavior; sociometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The AIDS pandemic has increased the need to gather comprehensive data on sexual behavior in developing countries. If, however, reporting of sexual activity is unreliable, our ability to monitor and evaluate AIDS prevention programs is undermined. Moreover, inaccurate reporting of sexual behavior affects explanations about the underlying mechanism driving the epidemic and provides a misleading picture of HIV/STI risk. In addition to not knowing who is having sex, under what circumstances and with whom, estimates of condom use are apt to be seriously biased. Not only is accurate self reporting critical for household surveys that document risky sexual behavior, it is also essential for clinical trials that investigate the effectiveness of technologies to prevent transmission of HIV and other STIs, e.g. female controlled microbicides, the female condom and the diaphragm. Given the explicit expectations that participants comply with project protocols during a clinical trial, accurate data on these behaviors may be difficult to obtain. Furthermore, since researchers asking about new technologies are likely to be perceived as favoring them, acceptability data on new reproductive technologies are thought to be compromised because of courtesy bias. Clearly, improving self-reports of sexual behavior and product use will minimize the possibility that a drug or technology would be considered ineffective when in fact low compliance, perhaps caused by low acceptability, is the issue. Through a series of methodological experiments and innovative research activities, this project aims to (1) assess and improve the validity and reliability of reporting of sexual behavior in survey research implemented in developing countries, (2) improve the quality of behavioral data collected in clinical trials of products and technologies aimed at reducing STI transmission and (3) evaluate the use of new technologies for collecting data on sexual behavior in developing countries, specifically computerized self-interviewing.

描述（由申请人提供）：艾滋病大流行已经增加了收集发展中国家性行为的全面数据的需求。但是，如果报告性活动不可靠，我们监测和评估预防计划的能力将受到破坏。此外，性行为不准确的报告会影响有关推动流行病的基本机制的解释，并提供了对HIV/STI风险的误导。除了不知道谁在发生性关系，在什么情况下和谁与谁发生性关系之外，对使用避孕套的估计还很容易受到严重偏见。 准确的自我报告不仅对记录有风险性行为的家庭调查至关重要，而且对于调查技术防止HIV和其他性传播感染的有效性的临床试验也至关重要。雌性受控的微生物，雌性避孕套和隔膜。鉴于参与者在临床试验中遵守项目方案的明确期望，可能很难获得有关这些行为的准确数据。此外，由于询问新技术的研究人员可能会被认为是有利于它们的，因此人们认为，有关新生殖技术的可接受性数据被认为是由于礼节性的偏见而受到损害的。显然，改善性行为和产品使用的自我报告将最大程度地减少毒品或技术被认为无效的可能性，而实际上可能是由于低接收性引起的，这是问题。 通过一系列方法论实验和创新的研究活动，该项目的目的是（1）评估和提高在发展中国家实施的调查研究中报告性行为报告的有效性和可靠性，（2）提高在临床试验中收集的行为数据质量，旨在降低STI传播的产品和技术的临床试验，并评估了对新技术的使用，该技术对新技术进行了定义的范围，该国家对发展进行了针对新技术的范围，该数据是针对开发行为的指定。