Assessing & Improving the Measurement of Sexual Behavior

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• 批准号: 7422224
• 负责人: BARBARA Sena MENSCH
• 金额: $ 7.14万
• 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/7422224
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Affect; Automobile Driving; Behavior; Behavioral; Brazil; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Cognitive; Computer Assisted; Computers; Confidentiality; Contraceptive Usage; Data; Data Collection; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Dominican Republic; Effectiveness; Epidemic; Ethiopia; Face; Female; Female Condoms; Funding; Goals; HIV; Handheld Computers; Household; Interview; Interviewer; Investigation; Kenya; Malawi; Measurement; Monitor; Paper; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Prevalence; Prevention program; Privacy; Process; Protocol Compliance; Protocols documentation; Questionnaires; Randomized; Reaction; Reporting; Reproductive Technology; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Respiratory Diaphragm; Respondent; Risk; Series; Sex Behavior; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Site; Surveys; Techniques; Technology; Thinking; Time; Uganda; Validity and Reliability; computerized; condoms; expectation; high risk sexual behavior; improved; microbicide; new technology; pandemic disease; prevent; research study; sex; transmission process

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 innovativeresearch 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 collectingdata on sexual behavior in developing countries, specifically computerizedself-interviewing.

艾滋病大流行已经增加了收集有关性行为的全面数据的需求 国家。但是，如果报告性活动不可靠，那么我们监视和评估艾滋病的能力 预防计划受到破坏。此外，性行为不准确的报告会影响有关的解释 驱动流行病的基本机制，并提供了艾滋病毒/STI风险的误导图。此外 不知道谁在发生性关系，在什么情况下和谁与谁在一起，避孕套使用的估计很容易成为 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 对于研究技术防止HIV传播和 其他性传播感染，例如雌性受控的微生物，雌性避孕套和隔膜。给定明确 参与者在临床试验期间遵守项目方案的期望，这些行为的准确数据 可能很难获得。此外，由于研究人员询问新技术可能会被认为 作为偏爱它们，认为新生殖技术的可接受性数据被认为是由于 礼貌偏见。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 当实际上较低的依从性时，药物或技术可能是无效的，也许是由于低的 可接受性是问题。 通过一系列方法论实验和Innovativeresearch活动，该项目旨在（1）评估 并提高在实施的调查研究中进行性行为报告的有效性和可靠性 发展中国家，（2）提高产品临床试验中收集的行为数据的质量和 旨在减少性传播传播传输的技术，（3）评估使用新技术收集的技术 关于发展中国家的性行为，特别是计算机化的浏览。