Methodological Issues in AIDS Behavioral Research

✍ Scribed by David G. Ostrow, Ronald C. Kessler (auth.), David G. Ostrow M.D., Ph.D., Ronald C. Kessler Ph.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Methodological problems have hampered researchers' efforts to understand and control AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. This practical book addresses these problems by using actual health research case studies to develop strategies regarding design and sampling, measurement, and analysis and modeling issues. Researchers working on both biological and behavioral aspects of the disease will find this work a singularly effective tool to improve their study designs.

✦ Table of Contents

Design, Measurement, and Analysis Issues in AIDS Mental Health Research....Pages 1-16
Ethical Issues and Approaches in AIDS Research....Pages 19-51
Sampling Considerations in Research on HIV Risk and Illness....Pages 53-74
Quasiexperimental Designs in AIDS Psychosocial Research....Pages 75-92
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques to Develop Culturally Sensitive Measures....Pages 95-116
Understanding Sexual Behaviors and Drug Use among African-Americans....Pages 117-132
Response Bias in Surveys of AIDS-Related Sexual Behavior....Pages 133-162
Recollection in the Kingdom of AIDS....Pages 163-180
Comments on Croyle and Loftus’s Recollections in the Kingdom of AIDS....Pages 181-186
Using Surveillance Data for Assessing and Projecting the AIDS Epidemic....Pages 189-204
Comment on De Gruttola and Pagano’s Using Surveillance Data for Assessing and Projecting the AIDS Epidemic....Pages 205-212
Analytic Methods for Estimating HIV-Treatment and Cofactor Effects....Pages 213-288
The Design and Analysis of Partner Studies of HIV Transmission....Pages 291-342

✦ Subjects

Public Health/Gesundheitswesen; Epidemiology; Health Informatics; Health Psychology; Sexual Behavior; Sociology