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Clinical Trial
. 2003 Jun;93(6):933-8.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.6.933.

An individually tailored intervention for HIV prevention: baseline data from the EXPLORE Study

Margaret A Chesney  1 , Beryl A Koblin, Patrick J Barresi, Marla J Husnik, Connie L Celum, Grant Colfax, Kenneth Mayer, David McKirnan, Franklyn N Judson, Yijian Huang, Thomas J Coates; EXPLORE Study Team
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Clinical Trial

An individually tailored intervention for HIV prevention: baseline data from the EXPLORE Study

Margaret A Chesney et al. Am J Public Health. 2003 Jun.

Abstract

Objectives: We describe the intervention tested in EXPLORE, an HIV prevention trial aimed at men who have sex with men (MSM), and test the empirical basis of the individually tailored intervention.

Methods: Data on participants' self-efficacy, communication skills, social norms, and enjoyment of unprotected anal intercourse were examined in relation to sexual risk. Combinations of these factors, together with alcohol use and noninjection drug use, were also examined.

Results: The individual factors examined were associated with sexual risk behavior. The cohort was shown to be heterogeneous in regard to the presence of combinations of these risk-related factors.

Conclusions: Baseline data from the EXPLORE study support the efficacy of the individually tailored intervention used.

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Percentages of men with low scores for self-efficacy for safer sex (white bars), communication skills (light gray bars), social norms (dark gray bars), and enjoyment of unprotected receptive anal sex (black bars), by sexual risk behaviors at baseline visit: EXPLORE, 1999–2001. Note. N = no report of risk behavior 6 months before baseline; Y = report of risk behavior 6 months before baseline; URA = unprotected receptive anal sex; UIA = unprotected insertive anal sex. *P < .0001.
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