CONDOM USE BY ADULT MEN

拟议的研究将调查影响使用或 不使用避孕套以防止艾滋病和其他性传播疾病的传播 在美国的成年男性中。该研究明确认识到 避孕套提供了额外的保护，防止怀孕的风险 并将这一因素包括在预测避孕套采用率的模型中 停产。此外，这项研究将研究如何 该人所居住的社区的特征会影响 避孕套的决策过程。 在拟议项目的第一阶段，我们将采访和 然后重新采访20-39岁的具有全国代表性的男性样本。 采访将获得有关这些人的社会-- 人口统计特征，性和避孕史， 以及与使用避孕套有关的知识、态度和行为 艾滋病的威胁。在项目的第二阶段，我们将 对调查数据进行分析。计划进行两个阶段的数据分析。这个 第一阶段由描述性分析组成，将提供基准 关于群体在知识、态度、看法和 与艾滋病和避孕套使用有关的行为。第二阶段 分析将检验我们的避孕套决策理论模型 进程。该模型不仅包含了决策者的反应 既包括艾滋病的风险，也包括怀孕的影响 社区层面的特点，如爱滋病的流行和 其他性传播疾病。 拟议的研究工作的结果将是政策的关键 因为避孕套在抗击艾滋病方面的重要性 艾滋病的传播。此外，我们将把重点放在决策过程上 在制定推广使用避孕套的战略方面特别有用。 最后，由于公共政策倡议是在总体上实施的 而不是个人层面，我们计划的背景分析将 提供对设计此类计划至关重要的信息。

The proposed research will investigate factors affecting the use or nonuse of the condom to prevent the transmission of AIDS and other STDs among adult males in the United States. The study explicitly recognizes that the condom offers additional protection from the risk of pregnancy and includes that factor in models predicting condom adoption and discontinuation. In addition, the study will examine how the characteristics of the community in which the man resides affects the condom decision-making process. During the first phase of the proposed project, we will interview and then reinterview a nationally representative sample of men aged 20-39. The interviews will obtain detailed information about the men's socio- demographic characteristics, their sexual and contraceptive histories, and their knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to condom use and the threat of AIDS. During the second phase of the project we will analyze the survey data. Two stages of data analyses are planned. The first stage consists of descriptive analyses that will provide baseline data about group differences in knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and behaviors related to AIDS and condom use. The second stage of the analysis will test our theoretical model of the condom decision-making process. This model not only incorporates the decision-maker's responses to the risks of both AIDS and conception, but also includes the effects of such community-level characteristics as the prevalence of AIDS and other STDs. The results of the proposed research effort will be crucial for policy makers because of the importance of condoms in the fight against the spread of AIDs. Further, our focus on the decision-making process will be particularly useful in developing strategies for promoting condom use. Finally, since public policy initiatives are implemented at the aggregate rather than the individual level, our planned contextual analysis will provide information that is critical in designing such initiatives.