Women's interest in vaginal microbicides.
Context: Each year, an estimated 15 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, occur in the United States. Women are not only at a disadvantage because of their biological and social susceptibility, but also because of the methods that are available for prevention. Met...
| Published in: | Family Planning Perspectives Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 16 - 24 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Guttmacher Institute, Inc.
Jan/Feb99
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=107182006&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 107182006 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 00147354 FPP jtl: Family Planning Perspectives issn: 00147354 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan/Feb99 vid: 31 iid: 1 pid: 13 pub: Guttmacher Institute, Inc. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 107182006 107182006 1999033408 10.2307/2991552 NLM10029928 107182006 ppf: 16 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Women's interest in vaginal microbicides. aug: au: Darroch JE Frost JJ affil: Senior Vice President, The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), New York sug: subj: Vaginal Creams, Foams and Jellies Microbiological Techniques Utilization Sexually Transmitted Diseases Drug Therapy Consumer Attitudes Logistic Regression Marital Status Odds Ratio Surveys Random Sample Interviews Questionnaires Chi Square Test Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Dependent Variable Multivariate Analysis Data Analysis, Statistical Adult Female Human Adult: 19-44 years Female ab: Context: Each year, an estimated 15 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, occur in the United States. Women are not only at a disadvantage because of their biological and social susceptibility, but also because of the methods that are available for prevention. Methods: A nationally representative sample of 1,000 women aged 18-44 in the continental United States who had had sex with a man in the last 12 months were interviewed by telephone. Analyses identified levels and predictors of women's worry about STDs and interest in vaginal microbicides, as well as their preferences regarding method characteristics. Numbers of potential U.S. microbicide users were estimated. Results: An estimated 2l.3 million U.S. women have some potential current interest in using a microbicidal product. Depending upon product specifications and cost, as many as 6. 0 million women who are worried about getting an STD would be very interested in current use of a microbicide. These women are most likely to be unmarried and not cohabiting, of low income and less education, and black or Hispanic. They also are more likely to have visited a doctor for STD symptoms or to have reduced their sexual activity because of STDs, to have a partner who had had other partners in the past year, to have no steady partner or to have ever used condoms for STD prevention. Conclusions: A significant minority of women in the United States are worried about STDs and think they would use vaginal microbicides. The development, testing and marketing of such products should be expedited. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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