Risk for HIV Infection (HIV) - Subject Follow-up
This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow24, Follow30, Follow36, Follow48, Follow60, Follow72, Follow84.
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Description of Measure
This section contains 13 questions that evaluate the subject's level of risk for becoming infected with HIV. The items included inquire whether the subject has been tested for sexually transmitted diseases, had unprotected sex, and injected drugs. Several questions also address activities of the subject's partner.
The following individual items are available:
- Number times had unprotected sex in recall period [S#HIV1]
- Number different partners had unprotected sex with in recall period [S#HIV2]
- Number times injected drugs in recall period [S#HIV3]
- Number times shared a needle in recall period [S#HIV4]
- Number people shared needle with in recall period [S#HIV5]
- Any sex partners inject drugs in recall period [S#HIV6]
- Traded sex for drugs/money/other in recall period [S#HIV7]
- Number times traded sex for drugs/money/other in recall period [S#HIV8]
- Number different people traded sex with in recall period [S#HIV9]
- Ever been told that sex partner was HIV positive [S#HIV10]
- Number different partners that were HIV positive [S#HIV11]
- Ever been tested for HIV [S#HIV12]
- Ever been tested for STDs [S#HIV13]
Data Issues
- This measure was added to the interview in version 01.16. Data for this measure will be available beginning with the follow24 timepoint.
- Beginning with version 01.22, items S#HIV1 through S#HIV9 are skipped if the subject was in a federal facility for the entire recall period. The first interview with this new logic was completed in the follow60 timepoint.
References
- Fullilove, Robert E., Fullilove, Mindy T., Bowser, Benjamin P., and Gross, Shirley A. (1990). Risk of Sexually Transmitted Disease Among Black Adolescent Crack Users in Oakland and San Francisco, CA. JAMA, 263(6): 851-855.
- Fullilove, Mindy T., and Fullilove, Robert E. (1989). Intersecting Epidemics: Black Teen Crack Use and Sexually Transmitted Disease. J. American Medical Women's Association 44(5): 146-152.