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ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2018

Validation of the HIV Risk Assessment of Sexual Partnerships (H-RASP): Comparison to a 2-Month Prospective Diary Study.

Gregory Swann, Michael E Newcomb, Brian Mustanski

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effectiveness of the smart program: Stepped-care HIV prevention for gay and bisexual adolescent boys.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025
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  2. Randomized controlled trial of a relationship education and HIV prevention program for young male couples: Biomedical and behavioral outcomes.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025
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  10. A Qualitative Study of First HIV Test Experiences Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gregory SwannDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 625 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2700, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
Michael E NewcombDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 625 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2700, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA. newcomb@northwestern.edu.
Brian MustanskiDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 625 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2700, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.

Funding

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS)UL1TR001422 · NCATS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI D'AQUILA, RICHARD · 2015 to 2023
$56.8M
Investigating change in HIV risk in a self-monitoring diary studyR03DA035704 · NIDA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI NEWCOMB, MICHAEL E · 2013 to 2014
$309k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001422NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA035704NIDA NIH HHS R03DA035704
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV Risk Assessment of Sexual Partnerships (H-RASP) was developed in order to create a retrospective measure of sexual risk-taking that can account for the differing contexts of sexual partnership(s) within a specified period of time. In order to validate the H-RASP relative to other methods of measuring sexual risk-taking, measurements from the H-RASP were compared to data from a prospective diary study of 95 young men who have sex with men over the same two-month period. We found that the H-RASP was not significantly different at measuring participants' total number of sexual partners and total number of anal sex partners in comparison with the diaries. The two measures were significantly different in measurement of total number of condomless anal sex (CAS) partners and number of CAS acts within partnerships, such that participants on average estimated more CAS partners and acts in the H-RASP. The two measures shared 40.8% of variance on measurement of CAS partners and 44.6% of variance on CAS acts within partnerships. These results suggest that even though the H-RASP is not a perfect replication of prospective diary data, it captures a moderate proportion of the same variance, and, in the case of CAS acts within partnerships, a proportion of the variance that likely would not be measured by retrospective measures that do not ask about behaviors specific to partnerships.

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Diaries as TopicRisk-TakingSexual PartnersAdultHIV InfectionsHomosexuality, MaleHumansMaleProspective StudiesReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentSexual BehaviorUnsafe SexCondomless anal sexGayHIVSexual orientationSexual riskYMSM

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PMID28733826
PMCPMC5756508

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