HIV RISK APPRAISAL IN SINGLE URBAN WOMEN

贫困、单身和生活在城市地区的女性属于 增加感染艾滋病毒的风险。确定导致女性罹患高危疾病的因素 否认风险的行为，或对行为改变缺乏兴趣， 到他们确定自己感染艾滋病毒的风险并考虑改变风险 在抗击艾滋病的斗争中，行为至关重要。目的 这项研究的目的是确定艾滋病毒风险的认知先行因素 对女性的评价及其与行为意向的关系 降低风险。使用分裂样本技术，具体目的是：(L) 使用MDS风险降低模型和跨理论模型 确定(即开发)描述艾滋病毒的综合认知模型 风险评估和行为意向对性行为活跃、 单身、混血的城市妇女；和(2)复制(即 交叉验证)模型。这些程序将决定在多大程度上 拟议的认知模型组件解释了艾滋病毒风险评估和 行为改变的初始阶段。参与者将从两个人中招募 市中心的医疗保健中心，将被要求完成书面 匿名问卷调查。妇女艾滋病知识知晓率测评， 社会规范、对艾滋病毒感染者的熟悉程度、艾滋病毒风险评估、 并得到行为变化的阶段。将对数据进行分析 使用描述性统计和结构方程建模，从而 允许对整个关系系统进行评估 同时。这项研究将提供影响因素的信息 行为改变的初始过程，即艾滋病毒风险评估和 意向改变艾滋病危险行为。未来的干预研究 然后，艾滋病行为改变策略可以有针对性地或与 人愿意采取行动并促进妇女在 行为改变的初始阶段。

Women who are poor, single, and live in urban areas are among those at increased risk for HIV. Identifying factors that move women with risky behaviors from denial of risk, or lack of interest in behavioral change, to where they identify their risk for HIV and contemplate changing risky behavior is of critical importance in the fight against AIDS. The purpose of this study is to identify the cognitive antecedents to HIV risk appraisal in women and their relationship to behavioral intentions to reduce risk. Using a split-sample technique, the specific aims are to: (l) use the MDS Risk Reduction Model and the transtheoretical Model to identify (i.e., to develop) an integrated cognitive model to describe HIV risk appraisal and behavioral intentions in a sample of sexually active, single, urban women of mixed ethnicity; and (2) to replicate (i.e., to cross validate) the model. These procedures will determine to what extent the proposed cognitive model components explain HIV risk appraisal and the initial stages of behavior change. Participants will be recruited from two inner-city health care centers and will be asked to complete written anonymous questionnaires. Measures of the women's knowledge of AIDS, social norms, familiarity with HIV infected persons, HIV risk appraisal, and stage of behavioral change will be obtained. Data will be analyzed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling, thus allowing the entire system of relationships to be evaluated simultaneously. This study will provide information on factors influencing the initial processes of behavior change, that is, HIV risk appraisal and intention to change AIDS risk behavior. Future intervention studies of AIDS behavior change strategies can then be targeted or matched to a person's readiness to act and facilitate women's progression through the initial stages of behavior change.