1. Effect of comprehensive AIDS intervention among men aged 50 or over who had non-marital sexual behavior
Dandan LIU ; Xiaobin CAO ; Huanlong LI ; Xiaochun LU ; Biqi SHOU ; Mengting LEI ; Changhe WANG ; Hui XUE
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2019;40(12):1595-1600
Objective:
To evaluate the effectiveness of AIDS intervention programs on men aged 50 or over and having had non-marital sexual behavior.
Methods:
A community-based intervention/experimental and based on individual level study was adopted. Stratified sampling method was used. 12 townships/streets in Fuyang district of Hangzhou were identified as intervention or control group (six research sites each). All of the subjects in the township (street) were included. The inclusion criteria of study objects would include men aged 50 or older who reported having unmarried sex in the last year. Estimated sample size was 290, with each 145 in the intervention group and the control group. All the intervention group participants were provided with a total of 4 intervention-related items (knowledge and education on AIDS prevention, information radiation and behavioral change, broadcast expert lectures), every 3 months, for 12 month, the main evaluation indicators would include: incidence of non-marital sex and commercial sex in the last year, condom use when having non-marital sex in the last episode.
Results:
A total of 312 subjects were recruited. 300 of them completed the baseline study while 284 of them completed the follow-up survey. Among the subjects who had undergone the baseline study, the average age was (65.58±7.89), 71.33