The implications of respondent concurrency on sex partner risk in a national, web-based study of men who have sex with men in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Men who have sex with men (MSM) represent the largest HIV risk group in the United States. Sexual concurrency catalyzes HIV transmission in populations by increasing the indirect exposure of one's sex partners to one another. Although individual-level (egocentric) designs have demonstrated a high prevalence of concurrency among MSM respondents, methods are lacking for understanding the exposure implications for partners (dyads) reported in such studies.

Methods

A new technique for manipulating egocentrically collected partnership timing data to measure the degree to which respondents' patterns of concurrency and serial monogamy resulted in the indirect exposure of respondents' partners to other partners was developed. Two outcomes were constructed for each partner

SUBMITTER: Rosenberg ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3700588 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature