Black HIV+ Mothers Influence Behaviors on Daughters

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训提案启动了一项关于性，性启蒙和风险行为的母女沟通的检查，因为它们与艾滋病毒有关。研究的重点是艾滋病毒感染的母亲和女儿之间具体的性风险降低沟通关系，以及与艾滋病毒阴性的母女二人组相比，与感染父母的关系如何影响行为，规范和控制信念以及性风险行为的参与。这项拟议的研究将检查沟通如何因儿童年龄、父母的服务状况和信仰等因素而变化，以及这些变量如何影响青少年参与艾滋病毒风险行为。这一顺序混合方法建议的第一部分是一项定性研究，以便更深入地了解感染艾滋病毒的母亲及其未感染艾滋病毒的女儿之间的性风险交流，特别是艾滋病毒。这项工作将为第二阶段提供信息，即一项更广泛的定量研究，检查与艾滋病毒相关的性风险行为的母女交流。这项初步研究将为未来研究艾滋病毒血清状态对母女交流的影响及其对降低艾滋病毒风险的影响奠定基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training proposal initiates an examination of mother-daughter communication regarding sexuality, sexual initiation, and risk behaviors, as they relate to HIV. The research focuses on the specific sexual risk reduction communication relationship between an HIV-infected mother and her daughter, and how the relationship with an infected parent impacts behavioral, normative and control beliefs and engagement in sexual risk behaviors as compared to HIV-negative mother-daughter dyads. The proposed study will examine how communication may vary by age of child, parent serostatus, and beliefs, among other factors, and how those variables impact engagement in HIV-risk behaviors by youth. The first part of this sequential mixed methods proposal is a qualitative study to gain a deeper understanding of sexual risk communication, specifically HIV, among HIV-infected mothers and their non-infected daughters. This work will inform the second phase, a broader quantitative study examining mother-daughter communication about HIV-related sexual risk behaviors. This preliminary research will form the foundation for future work examining the impact of an HIV serostatus on mother-daughter communication and it's impact on HIV risk reduction.