HIV PREVENTION AMONG HIGH RISK LATINO COUPLES

描述（改编自摘要）：在他们目前的项目中， 主要研究者和她的同事确定了非性行为 和态度特征，预测他们的倾向， 从事使他们处于感染艾滋病毒风险的性行为。 在这 继续研究研究者建议继续当前的研究 加州拉丁裔人避孕套决策的定性研究， 对拉丁美洲夫妇的区域概率样本进行挨家挨户调查 预计感染艾滋病毒的风险会增加。 在01年的 项目，研究人员将（1）完善因素的结构模型 与伙伴个人预防艾滋病毒感染的意图有关， 行为结果的程度，其中女性合作伙伴是 保护，基于对先前拉丁美洲男性研究的持续分析， 数据库，从拉丁美洲目前的研究定性数据，并在 一个由生命系统的延伸提供的理论框架 框架/动机系统理论;（2）开展平行面试 协议，以获得必要的数据，以衡量假设的 构建模型并检验假设的因果关系;（3）预检验 对16对、50对和20对夫妇的连续样本的访谈;和（4） 招聘和培训双语、双文化的现场面试人员。 在 02年，将收集600个区域概率样本的数据 加州拉丁裔夫妇，包括一名拉丁裔男子，18-40岁， 预计将在高风险的性感染艾滋病毒，这样， 结果可推广到一个大的和明确定义的部分， 拉丁裔人口在加州。 03年对这些数据的分析将使用 结构方程模型（SEM），用于估计 评估一组因果模型之间的关系， 心理和社会背景变量的合作伙伴，关系 夫妻、伴侣和夫妻性行为的特征，伴侣 预防艾滋病毒感染的意图，以及女性在多大程度上 合作伙伴受到保护。 这项研究的研究人员针对一个群体， 有证据表明，女性异性感染率上升， 儿童;他们希望为规划风险提供更坚实的基础 减少对拉丁美洲男子、拉丁美洲人或夫妇的干预， 对夫妻性行为决定因素的理论理解 以及扫描电镜技术在复杂电偶分析中的应用 数据

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the Abstract): In their current project, the Principal Investigator and her coworkers identified non-sexual behavioral and attitudinal characteristics of Latino men that predict their tendency to engage in sexual behavior that puts them at risk for HIV infection. In this continuation study the Investigator proposes to continue the current qualitative study of condom decision-making by California Latinas with a door-to-door survey of an area probability sample of Latino couples predicted to be at elevated risk of HIV infection. In Year 01 of the project, the researchers will (1) refine a structural model of factors related to partners' individual intentions to prevent HIV infection and the behavioral outcome in terms of the degree to which the female partner is protected, based on continuing analysis of the previous Latino men's study database, the qualitative data from the current study of Latinas, and within a theoretical framework provided by an extension of the Living Systems Framework/ Motivational Systems Theory; (2) develop parallel interview protocols to obtain the data necessary to measure the hypothetical constructs in the model and test the presumed causal relations; (3) pretest the interview on successive samples of 16, 50, and 20 couples; and (4) recruit and train the bilingual, bicultural field interviewing staff. In Year 02, data will be gathered on an area probability sample of 600 California Latino couples that include a Latino man, 18-40 years old and predicted to be at high risk of sexual infection with HIV, such that the results are generalizable to a large and clearly defined segment of the Latino population in California. Analysis of these data in Year 03 will use Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to estimate the parameters of and evaluate a set of causal models of the relationships between personal, psychological, and social context variables of the partners, relationship characteristics of the couples, partner and couple sexual behaviors, partner intentions to prevent HIV infection, and the degree to which the female partner is protected. The researchers in this study address a population showing evidence of increasing rates of heterosexual infection of women and children; they expect to provide a stronger basis for planning risk reduction interventions with Latino men, Latinas, or couples and to advance theoretical understanding of the determinants of couples' sexual practices and the application of SEM techniques to the analysis of complex couple data.