Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Decision-Making
Project, Baltimore City, 1988
Investigators:
The objective of the study was to determine whether consistency of
contraceptive use is associated with the young woman's social network
(family, friends, and sexual partners) and their attitudes towards
pregnancy and contraception.
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HIV/AIDS/STI
The HIV/AIDS/STI Data Archive, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, includes studies that provide descriptive and comparative data on the behavioral and social antecedents and consequences of HIV, AIDS, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Studies address a variety of topics including: the incidence and prevalence of specific sexual behaviors; contraceptive and STI-preventive behavior; attitudes and beliefs regarding sexual behavior and methods of contraception and STI prophylaxis; AIDS/HIV knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and serostatus; current and past episodes of gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, and other STIs; and high-risk behavior, including alcohol/drug use and prostitution.
Individual Studies in the HIV/AIDS/STI Collection
2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Investigators:
The goal of this ongoing study was to collect uniform, state specific
data on preventive health practices and risk behaviors that are linked
to chronic diseases, injuries, and preventable infectious diseases
in the adult population. Factors assessed by the BRFSS include tobacco
use, general health status, health care coverage, HIV/AIDS, and use
of cancer screening services, among others.
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2000 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Investigators: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The goal of this ongoing study was to collect uniform, state specific
data on preventive health practices and risk behaviors that are linked
to chronic diseases, injuries, and preventable infectious diseases
in the adult population. Factors assessed by the BRFSS include tobacco
use, general health status, health care coverage, HIV/AIDS, and use
of cancer screening services, among others.
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1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The goal of this study was to collect uniform, state specific data
on preventive health practices and risk behaviors that are linked to
chronic diseases, injuries, and preventable infectious diseases in
the adult population. Factors assessed by the BRFSS include tobacco
use, general health status, health care coverage, HIV/AIDS, and use
of cancer screening services, among others.
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The California Survey of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, & Behavior:
1988
Investigators:
This wave of the survey includes an increased number of high risk participants.
The topics include: demographic characteristics
of the three defined HIV risk groups; prevalence of AIDS risk behaviors;
perceived impact of the epidemic upon respondents; AIDS knowledge;
sources of information about AIDS; medical care and insurance coverage;
blood donation and transfusion; and information regarding respondents'
sexual relationships, and AIDS-related communication and condom usage.
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The California Survey of AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, & Behavior:
1987
Investigators:
This survey includes information about:
demographic characteristics of the three defined HIV risk groups; prevalence
of AIDS risk behaviors; perceived impact of the epidemic upon respondents;
AIDS knowledge; sources of information about AIDS; medical care and
insurance coverage; blood donation and transfusion; and information
regarding respondents' sexual relationships, and AIDS-related communication
and condom usage.
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Demographic, Behavioral, and Health Characteristics of Injection Drug
Users in San Francisco, 1985-86
Investigators:
The purpose of the study was to obtain baseline data on demographic
characteristics, sexual and other risk behavior, and general health
characteristics from a group of intravenous drug users in San Francisco.
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1991 Detroit Minority Youth Behavior Study
Investigators:
This study evaluated AIDS knowledge, perception of risk, and risk behaviors
related to sex in a sample of urban low income, African American and
Hispanic adolescents and young adults.
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1990 Los Angeles Women's Health Risk Study
David Kanouse
Investigators interviewed female street prostitutes in Los Angeles
County between May 1990 and February 1991 to study behavior linked
to transmission of HIV and other STDs. This study is unique in describing
the characteristics, risk behavior and serological status of a probability
sample of street prostitutes from a major metropolitan area of the
U.S., which is also an AIDS epicenter.
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1992 National AIDS Behavioral Survey (NABS II)
Investigators:
This study was designed to describe changes in AIDS related risk behaviors
over time, identify predictors of behavioral change, and describe patterns
of sexual "mixing"
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1990-92 National AIDS Behavioral Surveys (NABS
I) Complete Sample
Investigators:
This study examined AIDS-relevant risk behaviors and their correlates
in a population-based sample of adults residing in the contiguous United
States, using a complex household probability sampling strategy that
sought to determine the prevalence of HIV prevention and behavioral
risk factors.
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1990-92 National AIDS Behavioral Surveys (NABS
I)
Investigators:
This study examined AIDS-relevant
risk behaviors and their correlates in a population-based sample of
adults residing in the contiguous United States, using a
complex household probability sampling strategy that sought to determine
the prevalence of HIV prevention and behavioral risk factors.
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1992 National Health and Social Life Survey
Edward O. Laumann, Robert T. Michaels, John H. Gagnon and Stuart Michaels
This study was designed to determine the prevalence of various
sexual practices and examine the social and psychological
contexts in which those practices occur. The topics include early sexual
experiences, masturbation, contraception and fertility, sexual abuse,
coercion, sexual health, satisfaction, sexual dysfunction and homosexuality.
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1996 National Sexual Health Survey (NSHS)
Investigators:
Using a sample of english and spanish speaking adults, this study sought to assess
a wide range of HIV.related and human sexuality topics, including: condom
attitudes, condom slips and breaks, HIV-related care giving, HIV-testing and
home testing use, STD histories, perceived risk for HIV and other STDs and optimistic
bias assessments, extramarital sex, sexual development, sexual abuse and rape,
sexual dysfunctions, and various psychological scales (sensation-seeking, machismo).
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National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM), 1988
and 1990-91
Investigators:
The study's primary objective was to determine adolescent males' behaviors,
education and knowledge concerning human sexuality, contraception,
and sexually transmitted diseases.
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1991 National Survey of Men
Investigators:
This study was conducted to examine issues related to sexual behavior
and condom use among U.S. men aged 20 to 39.
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1991 National Survey of Women
Investigators:
This survey was conducted as a follow-up
to the 1983 Survey of Unmarried Women, and examined sexual,
contraceptive, and fertility behaviors, and the factors associated
with these behaviors.
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Prospero Project Condom Study, San Francisco, 1989-1991
Investigators:
This study explored condom use in 552 male sex workers in San Francisco,
with a focus on self-reports about the number of sexual partners
and condom use, frequency
of condom failure and the conditions under which
condom failure occurred.
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1997-98 Urban Men’s Health Study (UMHS)
Investigators:
Using an interview survey of men who have sex with men in four large
urban areas, this study collected information on up to four partners,
sexual development, anti-gay victimization, sexual coercion, access
to medical care, sexual problems, depression, alcohol and drug use,
STD assessment, HIV antibody test, attitudes about being HIV positive,
and well-being.
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