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病的传播 在美国的成年男性中。该研究明确承认， 避孕套提供了额外的保护， 并将这一因素纳入预测避孕套采用的模型中， 中止此外，该研究还将探讨 该男子所居住的社区的特点影响了 避孕套的决策过程。 在项目的第一阶段，我们将进行面试， 然后重新采访一个具有全国代表性的20-39岁男性样本。 采访将获得有关男子社会的详细信息- 人口统计学特征，他们的性和避孕史， 以及与安全套使用有关的知识、态度和行为， 艾滋病的威胁。在项目的第二阶段， 分析调查数据。计划进行两个阶段的数据分析。的 第一阶段包括描述性分析， 关于群体在知识、态度、观念和 与艾滋病和使用避孕套有关的行为。的第二阶段 分析将测试我们的理论模型的安全套决策 过程这个模型不仅包含了决策者的反应， 艾滋病和怀孕的风险，但也包括影响 社区一级的特点，如艾滋病的流行， 其他性病 拟议的研究工作的结果将对政策至关重要 由于避孕套在抗击艾滋病方面的重要性， 艾滋病的传播。此外，我们对决策过程的关注将是 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 提供对设计此类举措至关重要的信息。

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.