ATTITUDES IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV PREVENTION

科学家发展奖的申请描述了一个 艾滋病毒领域跟踪和研究的综合方案 预防这些努力的目标是（a）促进PI的 向艾滋病毒预防研究过渡;（B）评估艾滋病毒的社会影响， 艾滋病毒传播的心理基础 弱势的男女。拟议的培训将培养PI （a）艾滋病毒预防研究，包括理论研究， 实际方面;（B）更普遍考虑的艾滋病毒/艾滋病（即，其 流行率、传播、病程、治疗）;（c）重要 经济弱势群体的特点;以及（d） 测量态度的特殊技术。 拟议的研究将 检查艾滋病毒相关信念与已知行为的关系， 艾滋病毒感染的风险，特别是集中在不一致的 使用避孕套。第一项研究将涉及研究的荟萃分析， 将艾滋病毒相关态度和信念与危险性行为联系起来。一 第二，原创性研究将检验假设， 关于安全套使用（影响）预测安全套使用的自发 情况比使用避孕套的信念（认知）更好， 而这种关系在有意的情况下是相反的。蓄意 情况可能包括与自己的固定伴侣性交， 而自发的情况可能包括性交， 偶尔的伴侣和/或在酒精或其他药物的影响下。 将招募大约过百人来完成 他们对高风险行为知识的基线清单， 对艾滋病毒和艾滋病的态度，社会规范，以及以前的性行为 行为这些变量将在6周间隔后再次评估。 更有针对性的分析将分离出特定的情感和认知 区分低风险和高风险的态度方面 行为第三项研究将直接检查干预措施 上述研究的影响。

This application for the Scientist Development Award describes a comprehensive program of trailing and research in the field of HIV prevention. The goal of these efforts is (a) to facilitate the PI's transition into HIV prevention research; and (b)to evaluate the social psychological underpinnings of HIV transmission for economically disadvantaged men and women. The proposed training will develop the PI's knowledge about (a) HIV prevention research, including theoretical, and practical aspects; (b) HIV/AIDS more generally considered (i.e., its prevalence, transmission, course, treatment); (c) important characteristics of economically disadvantaged populations; and (d) special techniques to measure attitudes. The proposed research will examine the relation of HIV-relevant beliefs to behaviors that are known to be at risk for HIV infection, particularly focusing on inconsistent condom usage. A first study will concern meta-analyses of studies relating HIV-related attitudes and beliefs to risky sexual behavior. A second, original research study will test the hypothesis that feelings about condom usage (affect) predict condom usage in spontaneous situations better than do beliefs (cognition) about using condoms, whereas this relation reverses in deliberate situations. Deliberate situations are likely to include intercourse with one's regular partner, whereas spontaneous situations are likely to include intercourse with occasional partners and/or under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. Approximately too-hundred individuals will be recruited to complete baseline inventories of their knowledge about high-risk behavior, attitudes toward HIV and AIDS, social norms, and previous sexual behavior. These variables will again be assessed after a 6-week interval. More focused analyses will isolate the particular affective and cognitive attitudinal dimensions that distinguish between low- and high-risk behavior. A third study will directly examine the intervention implications of the foregoing studies.