HIV couples' anxiety and risk taking during ART.
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.
van Leeuwen
Elisabeth
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Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. e.vanleeuwen@amc.uva.nl
Visser
Marja
M
Prins
Jan M
JM
Nieuwkerk
Pythia T
PT
van der Veen
Fulco
F
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