Using Relationship Calendars to Improve Sexual Behavior Data among Kenyan Couples

使用关系日历改善肯尼亚夫妇的性行为数据

• 批准号: 7286873
• 负责人: NANCY K. LUKE
• 金额: $ 11.21万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-12 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7286873
• 关键词: Adolescence; Affect; Africa South of the Sahara; Age; Agreement; Calendar; Complex; Couples; Data; Data Collection; Data Quality; Data Set; Demographic and Health Surveys; Distant; Evolution; Female; Female Adolescents; Goals; Interview; Interviewer; Kenya; Lead; Low income; Measurement; Measures; Method Acceptability; Methods; Outcome; Participant; Process; Questionnaires; Randomized; Rate; Reaction; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Reporting; Reproductive Health; Research; Research Personnel; Respondent; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Sampling; Sampling Biases; Selection Bias; Sex Behavior; Sexual Health; Sexual Partners; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Social Desirability; Spouses; Standards of Weights and Measures; Structure; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Testing; Time; Woman; abortion; aged; child bearing; design; experience; high risk sexual behavior; improved; innovation; instrument; male; men; reproductive; sex; unintended pregnancy

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women engage in risky sexual behaviors that lead to poor reproductive and sexual health outcomes. The period from adolescence to early adulthood is characterized by the formation, evolution, and dissolution of diverse types of relationships with male partners from one-time encounters to marital unions coinciding with similarly complex changes in sexual behaviors and risk. Survey data on sexual behaviors within these diverse partnerships tend to be quite limited, however, and continue to suffer from measurement error, including recall and social desirability biases. New data collection approaches are urgently needed to improve both the scope and the quality of these data, and this application will test two innovative methods to meet these aims: First, a matched partner data set will be created by interviewing a random sample of women (aged 18-24) and men (aged 18-29) in Kisumu, Kenya, and by refining a strategy to recruit and interview their recent (in the last year) marital and non-marital sexual partners. The feasibility of this strategy will be assessed as well as the extent and type of selection bias with respect to which partners ultimately participate in the study. Is a larger and less biased sample of couples obtained by recruiting partners through women or through men? Second, a new survey method, the Relationship History Calendar (RHC), will be designed, which collects detailed, retrospective data on the romantic and sexual relationships of female and male respondents for up to 10 years prior to the survey. Both the structure of the questions and the interview process of the RHC are designed to minimize recall and social desirability biases. Respondents and their matched sexual partners will be randomly assigned to receive the experimental RHC instrument or a comparison standard Sexual Partnership Questionnaire (SPQ), such as the one used in the Demographic and Health Surveys, thereby allowing the assessment across instrument type and by sex of respondents. The feasibility and acceptability of the RHC compared to the SPQ will be assessed. The quality of sexual behavior data obtained from the RHC compared to that of the SPQ will also be evaluated. The ultimate goal of the proposal is to provide researchers with proven methods to collect highly contextualized, time-varying data. These data can be analyzed to understand how relationship histories and couple dynamics affect the sexual risk behaviors and extremely poor reproductive health outcomes of young women and men in sub-Saharan Africa.

描述(申请人提供)：在整个撒哈拉以南非洲，少女和年轻妇女从事危险的性行为，导致不良的生殖和性健康结果。从青春期到成年早期，与男性伴侣的不同类型关系的形成、演变和解体，从一次性相遇到婚姻结合，与性行为和风险的类似复杂变化相吻合。然而，关于这些不同伴侣的性行为的调查数据往往相当有限，并继续受到测量误差的影响，包括回忆和社会期望偏差。迫切需要新的数据收集方法来改善这些数据的范围和质量，这项应用将测试两种创新方法来实现这些目标：首先，将通过对肯尼亚基苏木的妇女(18-24岁)和男子(18-29岁)的随机抽样，以及完善招募和采访他们最近(去年)婚姻和非婚性伴侣的战略，创建匹配的伴侣数据集。将评估这一战略的可行性，以及最终参与研究的伙伴的选择偏见的程度和类型。招募伴侣是通过女性还是通过男性获得的，是一个更大、偏见更小的夫妇样本？其次，将设计一种新的调查方法，即关系历史日历(RHC)，该方法收集调查前长达10年的男女受访者的浪漫和性关系的详细回顾数据。RHC的问题结构和面试过程都是为了最大限度地减少回忆和社会期望偏差。受访者及其匹配的性伴侣将被随机分配接受实验性RHC工具或对比标准性伙伴关系问卷(SPQ)，例如人口与健康调查中使用的工具，从而允许对受访者的工具类型和性别进行评估。将评估RHC与SPQ相比的可行性和可接受性。与SPQ相比，从RHC获得的性行为数据的质量也将得到评估。该提案的最终目标是为研究人员提供经过验证的方法，以收集高度情境化的、时变的数据。可以对这些数据进行分析，以了解关系史和夫妻动态如何影响撒哈拉以南非洲年轻男女的性危险行为和极差的生殖健康结果。