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7619929

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
Few studies have tried to identify the process of risk behavior change. In this paper, we present a method for the analysis of the process of risk behavior change; the methodology involves using time series data to form transition probability matrices. We apply the method to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sexual risk behavioral data from a cohort of gay men in Amsterdam. We determine the process of risk behavior change in this cohort, and we demonstrate that it is not possible to deduce the process simply from an examination of the static pattern. Our results imply that the risk behavior change that is observed in this cohort may be viewed as a homogeneous one-step Markovian process. This process of risk behavior change has implications for the long-term prediction of HIV seroconversion rates and for the design and evaluation of HIV behavioral intervention studies and vaccine trials. Our results also have implications for the interpretation of relapse behavior.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1044-3983
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
238-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
An analysis of the process of human immunodeficiency virus sexual risk behavior change.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital 94143-1347, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't