Exploring Latino men's HIV risk using community-based participatory research.
OBJECTIVE
To explore sociocultural determinants of HIV risk and identify potential intervention approaches among adult Latino men.


METHODS
Using community-based participatory research for study design and implementation and data analysis, 7 focus groups were conducted with members of a soccer league in central North Carolina.


RESULTS
Five themes emerged, including perceived barriers to accessing health care, the role of hegemonic masculinity in risk, and potentially effective intervention approaches to health promotion and disease prevention.


CONCLUSIONS
Latino soccer leagues may provide an effective social network with which to partner to design, implement, and evaluate interventions to reduce sexual risk among Latino men, who have been inaccessible in conventional HIV/ STD prevention programs.
Rhodes
Scott D
SD
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063, USA. srhodes@wfubmc.edu
Eng
Eugenia
E
Hergenrather
Kenneth C
KC
Remnitz
Ivan M
IM
Arceo
Ramiro
R
Montaño
Jaime
J
Alegría-Ortega
Jose
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003256:Community Participation; D017144:Focus Groups; D015658:HIV Infections; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina; D012106:Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012944:Social Support