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（由申请人提供）：在整个撒哈拉以南非洲，青少年女孩和年轻妇女从事风险的性行为，导致生殖和性健康状况不佳。从青春期到成年早期的时期的特征是与男性伴侣的形成，进化和解散，从一次性遭遇到婚姻工会的各种关系，与性行为和风险的复杂变化相吻合。但是，有关这些多样化伙伴关系中性行为的调查数据往往非常有限，并且继续遭受测量错误，包括召回和社会可取性偏见。迫切需要采用新的数据收集方法来提高这些数据的范围和质量，并且该应用程序将测试两种创新的方法来满足这些目标：首先，将通过访谈随机的妇女样本（18-24岁）和男性（18-24岁）和在Kisumu，Kenya，Kenya，以及在肯尼亚，以及招募策略的策略和最近的竞选公司（又是派遣）（又是派遣的）（又是派遣的，并在竞选中，都将创建一个匹配的合作伙伴数据集（18-24岁）（18-29岁）。将评估该策略的可行性，以及选择偏见的程度和类型与合作伙伴最终参与研究的程度和类型。是通过女性还是通过男性招募伴侣获得的较大且较少的偏见样本？其次，将设计一种新的调查方法，即关系历史日历（RHC），该方法将收集详细的回顾性数据，了解在调查之前长达10年的男性和男性受访者的浪漫和性关系。问题的结构和RHC的访谈过程都旨在最大程度地减少回忆和社会可取性偏见。受访者及其匹配的性伴侣将被随机分配以接收实验性RHC仪器或比较标准性伙伴关系问卷（SPQ），例如人口统计和健康调查中使用的，从而允许对仪器类型和受访者的性别进行评估。将评估RHC与SPQ相比的可行性和可接受性。还将评估从RHC获得的性行为数据的质量与SPQ相比。该提案的最终目的是为研究人员提供经过验证的方法，以收集高度背景化的时变数据。可以分析这些数据，以了解关系历史和夫妇动态如何影响撒哈拉以南非洲的年轻男女的性风险行为以及极低的生殖健康结果。