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Methodological Issues in HIV Behavioral Interventions

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Handbook of HIV Prevention

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) behavioral intervention research involves numerous methodological issues that are either unique to the field of HIV research or “cutting edge” in terms of behavioral research in general. The thrust of this chapter will be to review those issues that are either the most important new HIV prevention research issues or the most limiting in the areas of “sensitive” behavioral research (i.e., research on sexual, drug use, and other socially “sensitive” behaviors) in general. With the current trend to integrate HIV research and prevention activities into the larger domains of behavioral prevention and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in general, some of the issues and examples discussed in this chapter may go well beyond the purview of HIV intervention research per se. However, they have been selected for discussion here because of their key influence on the directions and opportunities that HIV prevention research are predicted to be going in the next 5–10 years. We have used the schema of an earlier publication, Methodological Issues in AIDS Behavioral Research,1 in discussing methodological issues by design, sampling and retention, measurement, and analytical/modeling issues and focus on topics that have progressed or changed the most since that book was published in 1993.

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Ostrow, D.G., Kalichman, S. (2000). Methodological Issues in HIV Behavioral Interventions. In: Peterson, J.L., DiClemente, R.J. (eds) Handbook of HIV Prevention. Aids Prevention and Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4137-0_3

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