title: Individual interviews with African-American women regarding condom use: a pilot study.
abstract: African-American women between 25 and 34 years of age are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Current prevention techniques, including education, have not had a significant influence on decreasing the rates of HIV and increasing safer sexual practices among some African-American women. This pilot study is one step towards increasing the understanding of this serious problem and developing effective interventions to stem the tide of HIV infection in African-American women. A grounded theory approach was used to address the process that unmarried, heterosexual, African-American women used to negotiate condom use with their sexual partner. Major concepts, connections between the categories, and theoretical codes are identified in this study and can be used to predict, speculate, explain, and understand the reported behavior of African-American women in negotiating condom use with their sexual partner.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Professions at Langston University, OK 73050, USA. thunter@lunet.edu
authors.forename: Teressa Sanders
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Hunter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D017008:Negotiating / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009825:Oklahoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D018579:Patient Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D021841:Safe Sex / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012649:Self Concept; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D012847:Single Person / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology