title: HIV couples' anxiety and risk taking during ART.
abstract: Anxiety and the willingness to undergo ART was assessed by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and by trade-off at increasing hypothetical HIV-1 transmission risks in fifty serodiscordant couples undergoing intrauterine inseminations as a risk-reduction strategy. Both men and women displayed high state anxiety levels, but despite their anxiety, women were prepared to take high risks to fulfill their desire for a child.
authors.affiliation: Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. e.vanleeuwen@amc.uva.nl
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen
authors.forename: Marja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Jan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Prins
authors.forename: Pythia T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Nieuwkerk
authors.forename: Fulco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: van der Veen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; D012309:Risk-Taking