An Individually Tailored Intervention for HIV Prevention: Baseline Data From the EXPLORE Study
Margaret A. Chesney, PhD,
Beryl A. Koblin, PhD,
Patrick J. Barresi, MPH,
Marla J. Husnik, MS,
Connie L. Celum, MD,
Grant Colfax, MD,
Kenneth Mayer, MD,
David McKirnan, PhD,
Franklyn N. Judson, MD,
Yijian Huang, PhD,
Thomas J. Coates, PhD and
the EXPLORE Study Team
Margaret A. Chesney, Patrick Barresi, and Thomas J. Coates are with the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Beryl A. Koblin is with the New York Blood Center, New York, NY. Marla J. Husnik and Yijian Huang are with the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash. Connie L. Celum is with the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle. Grant Colfax is with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Kenneth Mayer is with the Fenway Community Health Center, Boston, Mass. David McKirnan is with the Howard Brown Health Center, Chicago, Ill. Franklyn N. Judson is with Denver Public Health and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
FIGURE 1—Percentages of men with low scores for self-efficacy for safer sex (white bars), communication skills (light gray bars), social norms (dark gray bars), and enjoyment of unprotected receptive anal sex (black bars), by sexual risk behaviors at baseline visit: EXPLORE, 19992001.
Note. N = no report of risk behavior 6 months before baseline; Y = report of risk behavior 6 months before baseline; URA = unprotected receptive anal sex; UIA = unprotected insertive anal sex.