Exploring Patterns of Concurrency Among Urban African Americans

探索城市非裔美国人的并发模式

• 批准号: 8111281
• 负责人: Amy Stewart Nunn
• 金额: $ 14.28万
• 依托单位: MIRIAM HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8111281
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; African American; Age; Alcohol consumption; Applications Grants; Attitude; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Belief; Businesses; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Complex; Data; Drug usage; Ethics; Goals; HIV; HIV Seropositivity; Health Policy; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Imprisonment; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; K-Series Research Career Programs; Knowledge; Learning; Marriage; Medicine; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Motivation; Pattern; Peer Review; Philadelphia; Prevention; Preventive Intervention; Public Policy; Publishing; Race; Research; Research Project Grants; Review Literature; Risk; Sexual Partners; Socioeconomic Status; Suggestion; Surveys; Testing; Time; Trust; Underserved Population; Universities; Woman; aged; base; behavior change; behavioral/social science; career; community based participatory research; condoms; design; health disparity; interest; medical schools; member; men; novel; professor; public health relevance; response; sexual relationship; skills; social; social science research

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed K-01 career development award explores patterns of concurrent sexual partnerships, or partnerships that overlap in time, among urban African Americans in Philadelphia. I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research) in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brown University Medical School. I hope to use the K-01 award to transition from health policy to behavioral and social science research in HIV/AIDS prevention. My long-term career goals are to pursue an academic career in order to conduct behavioral and sociological research in the field of HIV/AIDS, to publish articles in the peer- reviewed literature, and conduct HIV/AIDS research that influences public policy. I hope to use the K01 award to learn how to conduct community-based participatory research (CPBR), develop new quantitative skills for behavioral science research, acquire expertise in behavioral research for HIV prevention and HIV intervention research, and gain expertise in health disparities research and ethical conduct of research in underserved populations. The research components of my application follow: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches will be employed to explore 32-40 African American community leaders' opinions and knowledge about sexual concurrency and other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among urban African Americans. CBPR will also be used to examine African American community leaders' interest in developing and piloting novel interventions to address concurrent sexual relationships and other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among African Americans. Subsequently, differential rates of sexual concurrency and other factors that may contribute to racial disparities in HIV rates among African Americans testing for HIV in Philadelphia will be explored. This analysis will rely on secondary survey data collected during Philadelphia's rapid testing campaign, which tests approximately 6,000 people annually. The beliefs, attitudes, practices, patterns and causes of concurrent sexual partnerships will then be explored through 80 in-depth qualitative interviews among HIV- negative African American men and women testing for HIV in Philadelphia. In keeping with the CBPR framework guiding this study, the findings of each of the aforementioned research projects will be shared and explored with African American community leaders and the Philadelphia community at large. Community input about the study findings, appropriate interpretations, interventions, and public policy suggestions will be solicited. The findings from the aforementioned studies will then be used to design an R01 grant application proposing an HIV prevention intervention. The intervention will combine behavioral and social interventions to address concurrent sexual partnerships, and may aim to increase condom use rates with main and non-main partners, reduce concurrent sexual partners, or address other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among HIV-negative African Americans. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This proposed K-01 career development award explores patterns of concurrent sexual partnerships, or partnerships that overlap in time, among urban African Americans in Philadelphia. I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research) in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brown University Medical School. I hope to use the K-01 award to transition from health policy to behavioral and social science research in HIV/AIDS prevention. My long-term career goals are to pursue an academic career in order to conduct behavioral and sociological research in the field of HIV/AIDS, to publish articles in the peer- reviewed literature, and conduct HIV/AIDS research that influences public policy. I hope to use the K01 award to learn how to conduct community-based participatory research (CPBR), develop new quantitative skills for behavioral science research, acquire expertise in behavioral research for HIV prevention and HIV intervention research, and gain expertise in health disparities research and ethical conduct of research in underserved populations. The research components of my application follow: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches will be employed to explore 32-40 African American community leaders' opinions and knowledge about sexual concurrency and other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among urban African Americans. CBPR will also be used to examine African American community leaders' interest in developing and piloting novel interventions to address concurrent sexual relationships and other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among African Americans. Subsequently, differential rates of sexual concurrency and other factors that may contribute to racial disparities in HIV rates among African Americans testing for HIV in Philadelphia will be explored. This analysis will rely on secondary survey data collected during Philadelphia's rapid testing campaign, which tests approximately 6,000 people annually. The beliefs, attitudes, practices, patterns and causes of concurrent sexual partnerships will then be explored through 80 in-depth qualitative interviews among HIV- negative African American men and women testing for HIV in Philadelphia. In keeping with the CBPR framework guiding this study, the findings of each of the aforementioned research projects will be shared and explored with African American community leaders and the Philadelphia community at large. Community input about the study findings, appropriate interpretations, interventions, and public policy suggestions will be solicited. The findings from the aforementioned studies will then be used to design an R01 grant application proposing an HIV prevention intervention. The intervention will combine behavioral and social interventions to address concurrent sexual partnerships, and may aim to increase condom use rates with main and non-main partners, reduce concurrent sexual partners, or address other factors contributing to HIV health disparities among HIV-negative African Americans.

描述（由申请人提供）：该拟议的K-01职业发展奖探讨了同时性伙伴关系的模式，或者在费城的城市非洲裔美国人中，与时间重叠的合作伙伴关系。 我是布朗大学医学院传染病科医学助理教授（研究）。我希望将K-01奖项从卫生政策转变为艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防的行为和社会科学研究。我的长期职业目标是从事学术职业，以便在艾滋病毒/艾滋病领域进行行为和社会学研究，以在同行评审的文献中发表文章，并进行影响公共政策的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究。 我希望使用K01奖来学习如何进行基于社区的参与研究（CPBR），为行为科学研究开发新的定量技能，获得艾滋病毒预防和艾滋病毒干预研究的行为研究专业知识，并获得健康差异研究的专业知识以及服务不足人群中的研究道德行为。 我申请的研究组成部分如下：将采用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法来探索32-40名非裔美国人社区领导人对性并发的看法和知识，以及其他导致城市非洲裔美国人艾滋病毒健康差异的因素。 CBPR还将用于研究非裔美国人社区领导人对开发和试行新颖的干预措施的兴趣，以解决并发的性关系以及其他导致非裔美国人艾滋病毒健康差异的因素。 随后，将探讨性交的差异差异和其他因素可能导致费城非裔美国人对艾滋病毒艾滋病毒测试的艾滋病毒率的种族差异的因素。该分析将依靠费城快速测试活动期间收集的二级调查数据，该数据每年大约有6,000人进行测试。 然后，将通过80次深入的艾滋病毒 - 非洲裔美国男性和女性在费城测试HIV测试HIV的HIV负面访谈，探讨同时性伙伴关系的信念，态度，实践，模式和原因。 为了与CBPR框架有关指导这项研究，将与非裔美国人社区领导人和费城社区共享并探索上述每个研究项目的发现。将征求有关研究结果，适当解释，干预措施和公共政策建议的社区意见。 然后，上述研究的发现将用于设计R01赠款申请，提出了预防HIV的干预措施。干预措施将结合行为和社会干预措施，以解决并发性伙伴关系，并可能旨在提高与主要和非曼联伴侣的避孕套使用率，减少并发性伴侣，或解决其他导致HIV艾滋病毒健康不符的非洲人健康差异的因素。 公共卫生相关性：该拟议的K-01职业发展奖探讨了在费城的城市非洲裔美国人中的并发性伙伴关系模式或时间重叠的伙伴关系。 我是布朗大学医学院传染病科医学助理教授（研究）。我希望将K-01奖项从卫生政策转变为艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防的行为和社会科学研究。我的长期职业目标是从事学术职业，以便在艾滋病毒/艾滋病领域进行行为和社会学研究，以在同行评审的文献中发表文章，并进行影响公共政策的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究。 我希望使用K01奖来学习如何进行基于社区的参与研究（CPBR），为行为科学研究开发新的定量技能，获得艾滋病毒预防和艾滋病毒干预研究的行为研究专业知识，并获得健康差异研究的专业知识以及服务不足人群中的研究道德行为。 我申请的研究组成部分如下：将采用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）方法来探索32-40名非裔美国人社区领导人对性并发的看法和知识，以及其他导致城市非洲裔美国人艾滋病毒健康差异的因素。 CBPR还将用于研究非裔美国人社区领导人对开发和试行新颖的干预措施的兴趣，以解决并发的性关系以及其他导致非裔美国人艾滋病毒健康差异的因素。 随后，将探讨性交的差异差异和其他因素可能导致费城非裔美国人对艾滋病毒艾滋病毒测试的艾滋病毒率的种族差异的因素。该分析将依靠费城快速测试活动期间收集的二级调查数据，该数据每年大约有6,000人进行测试。 然后，将通过80次深入的艾滋病毒 - 非洲裔美国男性和女性在费城测试HIV测试HIV的HIV负面访谈，探讨同时性伙伴关系的信念，态度，实践，模式和原因。 为了与CBPR框架有关指导这项研究，将与非裔美国人社区领导人和费城社区共享并探索上述每个研究项目的发现。将征求有关研究结果，适当解释，干预措施和公共政策建议的社区意见。 然后，上述研究的发现将用于设计R01赠款申请，提出了预防HIV的干预措施。干预措施将结合行为和社会干预措施，以解决并发性伙伴关系，并可能旨在提高与主要和非梅因伴侣的避孕套使用率，减少并发性伴侣，或解决其他导致艾滋病毒健康危害的非洲人健康危害的因素。