Trial reportArchives of sexual behavior2012
The effects of alcohol and sexual arousal on determinants of sexual risk in men who have sex with men.
Trial report in Archives of sexual behavior, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02330419 (Better Than Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 47 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Better Than Study: Targeting Heavy Alcohol Use With Naltrexone Among MSM
Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-Analysis of Alcohol and Serodiscordant Condomless Sex Among People Living with HIV.Archives of sexual behavior · 2018Pooled it
- Does being drunk or high cause HIV sexual risk behavior? A systematic review of drug administration studies.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2018Pooled it
- Systematic review of interventions to reduce problematic alcohol use in men who have sex with men.Drug and alcohol review · 2016Pooled it
- Alcohol Use Predicts Sexual Decision-Making: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Literature.AIDS and behavior · 2016Pooled it
- Causal Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Condom Negotiation Skills of Women with Varying Sexual Assault Histories.AIDS and behavior · 2025Trial
- The Effect of Alcohol and Sexual Arousal on Explicit and Implicit Condom Attitudes and Intentions to Use a Condom.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Trial
- External validity of analogue sexual risk laboratory data.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Trial
- Cognitive-emotional mechanisms of alcohol intoxication-involved HIV-risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM).Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Moderated Mediation of Perceived Intoxication and Sexual Arousal on Determinants of Sexual Risk Behavior in Men Who Have Sex with Men.AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial of Game Plan, A Web Application to Help Men Who Have Sex with Men Reduce Their HIV Risk and Alcohol Use.AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- Causal Effects of Alcohol Intoxication on Sexual Risk Intentions and Condom Negotiation Skills Among High-Risk Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM).AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- Acute Alcohol Consumption Directly Increases HIV Transmission Risk: A Randomized Controlled Experiment.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Trial
- Acute Effects of Intoxication and Arousal on Approach/Avoidance Biases Toward Sexual Risk Stimuli in Heterosexual Men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2016Trial
- Assessing sexual motives for drinking alcohol among HIV-positive men who have sex with men.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2015Trial
- Sexual delay discounting as a moderator of the association between substance use and condomless anal sex among young black and Latino men who have sex with men.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Assessing Motivation for Condom Use Among MSM: Effort Discounting as a Novel Measure of Sexual Risk.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Why Some but Not Others? Exploring Factors That Determine Whether Alcohol Intoxication Increases Sexual Risk Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex with Men.Research square · 2025Article
- Sexualized drug use factors among rural sexual minority men.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Sexual Alcohol Expectancies, Alcohol Intoxication, and Sexual Behavior in MSM: An Experience Sampling Study.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Sexual alcohol expectancies moderate the relation between alcohol use and sexual behavior among men who have sex with men.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Primary prevention efforts aimed at sexual risk behaviors are critical. This experiment was designed to investigate the effects of alcohol intoxication and sexual arousal, as well as person variables of alcohol sex expectancies and attitudes toward condom use, on hypothesized determinants of sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM). The participants were 117 MSM aged 21-50 years who were randomly assigned to one of six separate experimental conditions created by the combination of beverage administration (water control, placebo or alcohol designed to raise blood alcohol level to .07%) and sexual arousal (low or high, manipulated by participants' viewing non-erotic or mildly erotic film clips). Participants attended two experimental sessions. The first session included completing questionnaires about beliefs about alcohol's effects on sex and attitudes toward condoms' effect on sexual pleasure. The second session involved the beverage condition and arousal manipulations. Following these, participants viewed and responded to two interactive videos depicting high sexual risk scenarios. Participants also completed the CARE, a measure of risk perceptions. The dependent variables were behavioral skills, intentions to have unsafe sex, and "risk exposure," derived from responses to the videos. The results of both planned and exploratory analyses showed general support for the hypothesized enhancement of alcohol's effects on sexual risk by both sexual arousal and expectancies. Also as predicted, condom attitudes showed direct relationships to risk exposure and intentions. Implications of the findings for models of alcohol's effects on sexual risk and for the development of HIV prevention interventions were discussed.
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