TY - JOUR
T1 - HIV Testing among Haitian Women
T2 - Lessons in the Recognition of Risk
AU - Wingerd, Judith L.
AU - Page, J. Bryan
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1997/12
Y1 - 1997/12
N2 - Haitian women in Miami, Florida, responded to recruitment for testing of HIV antibody serostatus in ways that demonstrated the value of ethnographic methods for studying reactions to this kind of test, especially preand posttest counseling sessions. A total of 155 women between 14 and 61 years old, recruited in Miami in 1992 and 1993, participated. Response to testing identified three primary obstacles to the women's understanding of content presented in pre- and posttest counseling sessions: (1) their confusion about the meaning of positive versus negative, (2) the investigators' difficulty in communicating the concept of antibody, and (3) vagueness of the concept of window period between exposure and presentation of antibody. Retesting of a subset of Haitian participants helped to define sexual risk among these women in terms of having partners who had other partners and perception of supernatural risk.
AB - Haitian women in Miami, Florida, responded to recruitment for testing of HIV antibody serostatus in ways that demonstrated the value of ethnographic methods for studying reactions to this kind of test, especially preand posttest counseling sessions. A total of 155 women between 14 and 61 years old, recruited in Miami in 1992 and 1993, participated. Response to testing identified three primary obstacles to the women's understanding of content presented in pre- and posttest counseling sessions: (1) their confusion about the meaning of positive versus negative, (2) the investigators' difficulty in communicating the concept of antibody, and (3) vagueness of the concept of window period between exposure and presentation of antibody. Retesting of a subset of Haitian participants helped to define sexual risk among these women in terms of having partners who had other partners and perception of supernatural risk.
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U2 - 10.1177/109019819702400608
DO - 10.1177/109019819702400608
M3 - Article
C2 - 9408787
AN - SCOPUS:0031298021
VL - 24
SP - 736
EP - 745
JO - Health Education and Behavior
JF - Health Education and Behavior
SN - 1090-1981
IS - 6
ER -