Survey of HIV-related Behaviors of the Maasai of Tanzania

坦桑尼亚马赛人艾滋病毒相关行为调查

• 批准号: 7845575
• 负责人: Aaron Julius Siegler
• 金额: $ 2.69万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-22 至 2011-05-21
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7845575
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; Adolescent; Adoption; Adult; Age; Area; Behavior; Belief; Cessation of life; Cognitive; Communities; Country; Custom; Data; Elderly; Epidemic; Failure; Female Circumcision; Focus Groups; Foundations; Goals; HIV; Health behavior; Individual; Institution; Intervention; Interview; Kenya; Knowledge; Language; Life; Male Circumcision; Measurement; Measures; Methods; National Institute of Mental Health; Participant; Partner in relationship; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Population; Pregnancy; Prevalence; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Primary Prevention; Procedures; Public Health; Publishing; Randomized; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction; Series; Sex Behavior; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Spouses; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Tanzania; Teenagers; Testing; The Sun; Tribes; Unmarried; Validity of Self Report; Virginity; Voice; Wife; age group; aged; arm; career development; condoms; design; girls; high risk; instrument; male; member; novel; prevent; programs; psychosocial; public health relevance; response; sedentary; sex; social; sound; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research plan proposes to conduct a randomized survey to assess sexual behaviors related to HIV transmission and their predictors among several communities of the Maasai Tribe of Tanzania. The HIV epidemic has severely afflicted Tanzania, and the Maasai Tribe may be at uniquely high risk due to sexual practices such as large age gaps between spouses (15-45 years), sexual access to age-mates wives (wife- sharing), sanctioned sex between unmarried warriors aged 15-29 and pre-pubescent girls aged 8-13, and female circumcision. Despite this unique risk profile and the large population of the Maasai tribe (estimates between 1/¿-1 million members), no published studies have measured the prevalence of these behaviors among the Maasai. This proposal seeks to determine the prevalence of HIV-related risk factors and their predictors in order to inform design of HIV prevention interventions that's both culturally appropriate and efficacious. To achieve this objective, the research project will adapt measures to create a culturally and linguistically appropriate survey instrument and analyze the results to determine prevalence of sexual practices and predictors of these practices. Additionally, the research project will assess the impact of an experimental procedure designed to increase validity of self-report measures of sexual behavior. The proposed project addresses an area of high priority identified by NIMH Division of AIDS and Health and Behavior Research (DAHBR) in that it seeks to identify individual and social factors that would impact HIV risk reduction. The proposal also addresses an area of emphasis within the DAHBR Research Training and Career Development Program: the goal of promoting global adoption of primary prevention interventions. It addresses this goal by providing a foundation of knowledge that is a necessary first step to providing culturally appropriate and relevant HIV primary prevention programs. This research seeks to conduct of survey of sexual behaviors related to HIV among the Maasai of Tanzania, a group that may be at uniquely high risk for the spread of HIV. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The relevance of this research to public health is that it will provide a foundation of information that will enable the design and provision of effective HIV prevention interventions.

描述（由适用提供）：本研究计划提案，旨在进行随机调查，以评估坦桑尼亚马赛部几个社区中与HIV传播及其预测因子有关的性行为。 HIV流行严重遭受了坦桑尼亚的困扰，由于性行为（15-45岁）之间的年龄差距很大，与年龄伴侣（妻子共享），未婚勇士之间的性别批准的15-29名15-29岁的15-29岁和女性的女性Civermed 8-13和女性citivemed Citivem and Maasai Tribe可能处于独特的高风险。尽管这种独特的风险概况和大量的马赛部落人口（估计为1/€-1万成员），但未发表的研究尚未衡量Maasai中这些行为的普遍性。该提案旨在确定与HIV相关的危险因素及其预测因素的普遍性，以告知既适合文化且有效的艾滋病毒预防干预措施的设计。为了实现这一目标，研究项目将适应在文化和语言上适当的调查工具中创建的措施，并分析结果以确定性实践的普遍性和这些实践的预测因素。此外，研究项目将评估旨在提高自我报告性行为措施有效性的实验程序的影响。拟议的项目解决了NIMH艾滋病和健康与行为研究（DAHBR）确定的高优先级领域，因为它试图确定会影响降低HIV风险的个人和社会因素。该提案还解决了Dahbr研究培训和职业发展计划中的重点：促进全球采用初级预防干预措施的目标。它通过提供知识的基础来解决这一目标，该基础是提供具有文化适当且相关的HIV主要预防计划的必要第一步。这项研究旨在对坦桑尼亚的马赛人中与艾滋病毒有关的性行为进行调查，坦桑尼亚的马赛人可能面临艾滋病毒传播的独特风险。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究与公共卫生的相关性是，它将提供信息的基础，以设计和提供有效的HIV预防干预措施。

项目成果

Applying the Dynamic Social Systems Model to HIV prevention in a rural African context: the Maasai and the esoto dance.

将动态社会系统模型应用于非洲农村地区的艾滋病毒预防：马赛和埃索托舞蹈。

• DOI: 10.1177/1090198112474004
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education
• 作者: Siegler,AaronJ;Mbwambo,JessieK;DiClemente,RalphJ
• 通讯作者: DiClemente,RalphJ