The Disaggregated Repeated Measures Design: A Novel Approach to Assess Sexual Risk Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Although numerous studies have examined sexual and substance use behaviors that put people at risk for sexually transmitted infections including HIV, most focus on an overall measure of aggregate risk or a few simple and particular subtypes of sexual acts assessed in separate analyses. In this article, we introduce a more sensitive approach to assess how the relative characteristics of sex acts may determine the level of risk in which an individual chooses to engage. Project AWARE, a randomized clinical trial conducted among 5012 patients in nine STD clinics across the U.S., is used to illustrate the approach. Our study was guided by two aims: (1) describe a new approach to examine the count of sexual acts using a disaggregated repeated measures design and (2) show how this new approach ca

SUBMITTER: Pan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688506 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature