[Is there a correlation between alcohol drinking and sexual risk taking? A discussion of conceptional aspects exemplified by HIV infected men with homosexual behavior].
Does sexual risk behavior and alcohol consumption correlate or is sexual risk behavior due to alcohol consumption? These questions are controversially discussed in the literature. We investigated whether the two different methodological concepts (global association, e.g. not specific to the critical incident and situational association) cause these discrepancies in a sample of 64 HIV-infected gay men. There was no significant global association between alcohol consumption and sexual risk behavior. Using the situational approach, drinking was not related to sexual risk behavior. The combination of these two concepts may help to identify persons at risk.
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Departement Innere Medizin, Universitätsspital Zürich.
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D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012931:Social Environment; D013557:Switzerland; D014505:Urban Population