BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS AND ASSOCIATED OUTCOMES OVER PARTY-ORIENTED VACATIONS

聚会假期的行为意图和相关结果

• 批准号: 7684573
• 负责人: RAJEEV N RAMCHAND
• 金额: $ 13.15万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7684573
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV diagnosis; AIDS/HIV problem; Accounting; Address; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Belief; Bisexual; Categories; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Communities; Dancing; Data; Data Set; Disease; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Environment; Epidemiologist; Event; Face; Feasibility Studies; Gays; Goals; Grant; HIV Infections; Harm Reduction; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Mediating; Mentors; Methods; Outcome; Pattern; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Plague; Play; Population; Prevention; Prevention strategy; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk-Taking; Role; Sampling; Scientist; Sex Behavior; Signal Transduction; Social Environment; Survey Methodology; Testing; Training; Travel; United States; career; effective intervention; follow-up; high risk; high risk behavior; high risk sexual behavior; insight; interest; men; men who have sex with men; novel; public health relevance; transmission process; willingness

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Rajeev Ramchand is an early career investigator pursuing the A-START grant mechanism to facilitate his entry into the area of drug abuse research on HIV/AIDS. His proposed research is a feasibility study that aims to understand the importance of intentions in explaining drug-using and sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) during a circuit party. A sample of MSM arriving at a circuit party will be recruited and asked about their intentions to use specific drugs and engage in specific sexual behaviors. The same individuals will be contacted after the event and asked about their actual drug use and sexual activities over the course of the weekend. With this rich set of data, Dr. Ramchand proposes four study aims: (1) Identify predictors of pre-event drug-using intentions and willingness to engage in risky sexual behaviors at circuit parties; (2) Test whether normative beliefs about behaviors at circuit parties mediate the relationship between the predictors identified in Specific Aim 1 and behavioral intentions at circuit parties; (3) Estimate the strength of the relationship between specific behavioral intentions and specific behaviors; and (4) Identify the proportion of party-goers who engage in high risk behaviors at circuit parties but do not arrive intending to do so, and examine changes in these individuals' pre- and post-party normative beliefs. The results from this set of study aims will help inform what will be the most promising HIV prevention strategies for this high-risk group at these high-risk venues, and could provide insight into explaining why HIV/AIDS diagnoses are rising for men who have sex with men when they are declining for all other transmission categories. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of this project is two-fold: (1) to help facilitate Dr. Rajeev Ramchand's entry into research on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS; and (2) to assess the role of behavioral intentions on drug-using and sexual behaviors that increase the risk of HIV infection. To accomplish these complementary objectives, Dr. Ramchand, a psychiatric epidemiologist by training and now an associate behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, will collect anonymous data from gay and bisexual men attending a circuit party both before and after the event. This research will provide insight into the role of intentions on risky behaviors among a group of individuals at high risk for HIV infection, and the results can be used to identify optimal intervention strategies for this group at these potentially risky venues.

描述（由申请人提供）：Rajeev Ramchand博士是一名早期职业调查员，追求A-Start Grant机制，以促进他进入有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病的药物滥用研究领域。他提出的研究是一项可行性研究，旨在了解意图在解释与男性发生性关系（MSM）的男性（MSM）的意图中的重要性。将招募到达巡回党的MSM样本，并询问他们使用特定药物并从事特定性行为的意图。活动结束后，将与同一个人联系，并在周末询问他们的实际使用毒品和性活动。 Ramchand博士通过这组丰富的数据集，提出了四个研究目的：（1）确定预测事件前吸毒的意图和愿意在巡回派对中从事风险的性行为的意愿； （2）测试对巡回方行为的规范信念是否介导了特定目标1中确定的预测因素与巡回当事方行为意图之间的关系； （3）估计特定行为意图与特定行为之间关系的强度； （4）确定在巡回派对中从事高风险行为但并不是打算这样做的党派参与党派的比例，并检查这些人的党前和后规范性信仰的变化。这组研究目标的结果将有助于告知这些高风险群体在这些高风险群体中最有前途的艾滋病毒预防策略，并可以洞悉解释为什么当所有其他传播类别下降时，与男性发生性关系的艾滋病毒/艾滋病诊断为何会增加。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的目的是两个方面：（1）帮助促进Rajeev Ramchand博士进入药物滥用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究； （2）评估行为意图对增加艾滋病毒感染风险的毒品和性行为的作用。为了实现这些互补的目标，Ramchand博士是培训的精神病患者，现在是Rand Corporation的一名副行为科学家，将从Gay和Bisexual男子那里收集参加活动前和参加巡回派对的匿名数据。这项研究将洞悉意图对艾滋病毒感染高风险的个体中风险行为的作用，结果可用于确定这些潜在风险的场所对该群体的最佳干预策略。