Men?s Assessment of Social Support and Risk Networks

男性对社会支持和风险网络的评估

• 批准号: 7835588
• 负责人: David G Ostrow
• 金额: $ 16.16万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7835588
• 关键词: AIDS population; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adopted; Affect; African American; Age; Age-Years; Aging; Anus; Behavior; Belief; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Characteristics; Chicago; Cognitive; Cohort Studies; Data; Dimensions; Drug usage; Elderly; Epidemiologic Studies; Epidemiology; Ethnic Origin; Exposure to; Goals; HIV; Incidence; Individual; Information Networks; Intervention; Interview; Intravenous; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Light; Longevity; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Nature; Pathway Analysis; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Play; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Quality of life; Race; Research; Research Personnel; Respondent; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Risk-Taking; Role; Sampling; Sexual Partners; Site; Social Environment; Social Network; Social support; Specific qualifier value; Structure; Subgroup; Techniques; Testing; Validity and Reliability; Variant; Work; base; high risk; meetings; member; men; men who have sex with men; method development; middle age; older men; sex; sexually active; social; transmission process; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal concerns the study of Men's Assessment of Social Support and Risk Networks. Unfortunately, relatively little is known about the particular social consequences of the aging of the HIV/AIDS population, either for the challenges faced by persons who live with HIV/AIDS (PWHIV) in later life or for the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to network-epidemiological studies, important clues may be found in the social networks of middle-aged and older men who have sex with men (MSM). The main goal of our research is to develop techniques for eliciting valid social network information from MSM who participate in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS). We propose to adapt egocentric social network elicitation techniques that are commonly used in social network studies to gather high-quality network information about both the supportive and risk- behavior networks of MSM. A pilot study will involve querying 60 seropositive and seronegative men participating in the Chicago site of the MACS about the structure of their support networks, drug-sharing networks, and sexual networks. Information will be collected during 20-30 minute face-to-face interviews. Respondents will provide information about the number of people in each of these networks, the nature of their contact with them, how they met, how much they know about those network members' contacts with each other, and what they know about those network members' HIV serostatus, risky behavior (e.g., intravenous drug sharing) behaviors and other risk factors. This information will also give us an idea of the extent of overlap between MSM's drug-sharing and sexual networks. When paired with other information collected in the MACS, this information will make it possible to examine the consequences of social networks both for the impact of HIV/AIDS on quality of life (QOL) as well as for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS in the "post-HAART era." Furthermore, these data will allow us to examine how knowledgeable MSM are about the risk-related aspects of their networks, such as to what extent the people with whom they share drugs also share drugs with each other. This reflects our belief that not being knowledgeable about one's supportive and/or risk networks is a risk factor in and of itself. These data will be validated against existing information in the MACS. This pilot study will be used to evaluate the feasibility of creating a Men's Network Structure Assessment (MNSA) module for inclusion in the MACS. This will make high-quality social- and risk-network data readily available to a large number of researchers who use the MACS, thus facilitating the use of social network analysis (SNA) in large, prospective study of MSM. Such data will help shed light on sociodemographic disparities in terms of quality of life (QOL) as well as group differences in risk-taking among PWHIV and provide a basis for targeted social network level interventions. 1 Men's Assessment of Social Support and Risk Network will provide new data regarding the consequences of the aging of the HIV/AIDS population by learning more about the social networks of middle-aged and older men who have sex with men (MSM). The project will develop techniques for eliciting valid social network information from MSM, providing the number of people in each of these networks, the nature of their contact with them, how they met, how much they know about those network members' contacts with each other, and what they know about those network members' HIV status, risky behavior behaviors and other risk factors. The study will also give us an idea of the extent of overlap between MSM's drug-sharing and sexual networks and the consequences of social networks both for the impact of HIV/AIDS on quality of life as well as for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案涉及男性对社会支持和风险网络评估的研究。不幸的是，对于艾滋病毒/艾滋病人群衰老的特殊社会后果，对患有艾滋病毒/艾滋病（PWHIV）（PWHIV）所面临的挑战或艾滋病毒/艾滋病的传播所面临的挑战相对较少。根据网络流行病学研究，可以在与男性发生性关系的中年和老年男性的社交网络中找到重要的线索。我们研究的主要目标是开发从参与多中心艾滋病队列研究（MAC）的MSM的有效社交网络信息的技术。我们建议适应社交网络研究中通常使用的以自我为中心的社交网络启发技术，以收集有关MSM的支持性和风险行为网络的高质量网络信息。一项试点研究将涉及查询60名血清阳性和血清症状的男性，他们参与Mac的芝加哥遗址，以了解其支持网络，药物共享网络和性网络的结构。信息将在20-30分钟的面对面访谈中收集。受访者将提供有关每个网络中人数的信息，与他们接触的性质，他们的联系，他们对这些网络成员之间的联系有多少知识，以及他们对这些网络成员的HIV hiv Serostatus的了解，风险行为（例如，静脉注射药物共享）行为和其他风险因素和其他风险因素。这些信息还将使我们了解MSM的药物共享和性网络之间重叠的程度。当与MAC中收集的其他信息配对时，此信息将使社交网络对艾滋病毒/艾滋病对生活质量的影响（QOL）的影响以及艾滋病毒/艾滋病在“后时代”中的潜在传播是可能的。此外，这些数据将使我们能够研究其网络与风险相关方面的知识渊博，例如​​，与他们共享毒品的人们在多大程度上也相互共享毒品。这反映了我们的信念，即对自己的支持和/或风险网络不熟悉是一个危险因素。这些数据将针对MAC中的现有信息验证。该试点研究将用于评估创建男士网络结构评估（MNSA）模块以包含在MAC中的可行性。这将使大量使用MAC的研究人员容易获得高质量的社交和风险网络数据，从而促进在MSM的大型前瞻性研究中使用社交网络分析（SNA）。这样的数据将有助于阐明社会人口统计学差异（QOL）以及PWHIV之间的冒险群体差异，并为有针对性的社交网络水平干预提供了基础。 1男士对社会支持和风险网络的评估将通过了解与男性发生性关系的中年和老年男性（MSM）的社交网络的更多信息，以提供有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病人群老龄化的新数据。该项目将开发从MSM诱导有效的社交网络信息的技术，提供每个网络中的人数，与他们接触的性质，他们的联系，他们如何认识，他们对这些网络成员之间的联系有多少了解以及他们对这些网络成员的HIV艾滋病毒状况，风险行为行为和其他风险因素的了解。这项研究还将使我们了解MSM的药物共享和性网络之间重叠的程度，以及社交网络对HIV/AIDS对生活质量的影响以及艾滋病毒/艾滋病的潜在传播的影响。

项目成果

Network mixing and network influences most linked to HIV infection and risk behavior in the HIV epidemic among black men who have sex with men.

• DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2012.301003
• 发表时间: 2013-01
• 期刊: American journal of public health
• 影响因子: 12.7
• 作者: Schneider JA;Cornwell B;Ostrow D;Michaels S;Schumm P;Laumann EO;Friedman S
• 通讯作者: Friedman S

HIV health center affiliation networks of black men who have sex with men: disentangling fragmented patterns of HIV prevention service utilization.

男男性行为黑人的艾滋病毒健康中心附属网络：理清艾滋病毒预防服务利用的分散模式。

• DOI: 10.1097/olq.0b013e3182515cee
• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: Sexually transmitted diseases
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Schneider,JohnA;Walsh,Tim;Cornwell,Benjamin;Ostrow,David;Michaels,Stuart;Laumann,EdwardO
• 通讯作者: Laumann,EdwardO