       Document 0242
 DOCN  M95A0242
 TI    Validating population surveys for the measurement of HIV/STD prevention
       indicators.
 DT    9510
 AU    Konings E; Bantebya G; Carael M; Bagenda D; Mertens T; Department of
       Infection and Immunity, Institute of Tropical; Medicine, Antwerp,
       Belgium.
 SO    AIDS. 1995 Apr;9(4):375-82. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95314793
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To validate the World Health Organization/Global Programme on
       AIDS (GPA) protocol for measuring HIV/sexually transmitted disease
       prevention indicators pertaining to knowledge and sexual practices of
       the general population. METHODS: Data were collected in Uganda during
       1993. Three different interview strategies were complemented with
       qualitative methods, including observations at visits and key-informant
       interviews. Two interview strategies consisted of structured
       questionnaires which were applied to 460 randomly selected people aged
       15-49 years and 60 intentionally selected women who were known
       prostitutes. The third strategy involved in-depth interviewing and was
       applied to a random subset of all respondents (n = 75). RESULTS: The
       three interview strategies generated similar results for demographic
       characteristics. The strategies using structured questionnaires gave
       similar results with regards to the number of reported sex partners and
       the prevalence of condom use, but differed from in-depth interviews on
       these aspects. The high numbers of casual sex partners of female
       prostitutes was confirmed by in-depth interviews but not via the
       questionnaires. CONCLUSION: The GPA questionnaire may not be optimal to
       capture people at high risk and to assess sexual behaviour, especially
       of people at high risk. Nevertheless, the questionnaire provides the
       most realistic option, since in-depth interviews are expensive and not
       as objective in assessing trends over time. Evaluation studies of HIV
       interventions in the general population should therefore be complemented
       with small qualitative studies to detect and iron out biases in
       interpreting results.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Condoms/UTILIZATION  *Data Collection  Female  Human
       HIV Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY  Knowledge, Attitudes,
       Practice  Male  Middle Age  *Population Surveillance  Prostitution
       Questionnaires  Reproducibility of Results  *Sex Behavior  Sexual
       Partners  Sexually Transmitted Diseases/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY
       Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  Uganda  World Health Organization  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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