title: [Comparison between methods as polling booth survey and face-to-face interview in understanding the high-risk behavior among HIV-positive clients of female sex workers].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Face-to-face interview (FTFI) and polling booth survey (PBS) were applied to compare the high risk behavior among HIV-positive clients of female sex workers (CFSWs).
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted in antiretroviral therapy (ART) out-patients centers in Hengyang city, where clients who had been informed on their HIV-positive status for 6 months or longer were recruited. FTFI was first used to tackle on 8 sensitive questions related to sexual behavior, followed by PBS to poke on the same questions. Results from FTFI and PBS were then compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared with FIFI, results in the PBS showed higher proportion of participants who reported "having had history of sexually transmitted diseases before knowing that they were infected with HIV" (40.6% vs. 24.2%) but lower proportions on "frequency of having sex with regular sexual partner less than 4 times per month" and "using condoms consistently with regular sexual partners in past 6 months (44.4% vs. 63.0%)". There were no significant differences in the remaining 5 questions shown in the results from the two methods.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HIV-positive CFSWs continued to practice unsafe sexual behaviors after knowing their HIV related status. Compared with FTFI, PBS seemed to have revealed higher proportion of unsafe sex behaviors, so as to generated more reliable data. While comparing with PBS, the traditional FTFI might have underestimated the risk behaviors among those HIV-positive CFSWs.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Peili
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Chu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Xianlong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Junshi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: The Third People's Hospital in Hengyang.
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.forename: Keming
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rou
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Email: wuzy@263.net.
authors.forename: Zunyou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D011477:Sex Work; D060386:Sex Workers; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000523:psychology