Alcohol & Men's Sexual Risk Behaviors

Официальное название

Men's Sexual Risk Behaviors: Alcohol, Sexual Aggression, and Emotional Factors (Extension)

Обзор

This project extends the investigators' previous research regarding the intersecting risks of alcohol, sexual risk behavior (SRB), and sexual aggression (SA) in male drinkers who have sex with women by examining the mediating and moderating roles of both intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional factors. While independent streams of research consistently document alcohol's role in SRB and SA, the investigators' work has demonstrated that these behaviors are related, and that alcohol exacerbates their likelihood both independently and synergistically. The researchers' investigations focus on a particular type of SRB: men's resistance to condom use with female partners who want to have protected sex. Condom use resistance (CUR) is common and normative among young male drinkers, with up to 80% of men reporting engaging in CUR. Of particular concern, research demonstrates that up to 42% of men report using coercive CUR tactics such as emotional manipulation, deception, condom sabotage, and force to obtain unprotected sex. Investigators will evaluate hypotheses that distal and proximal emotional and alcohol factors influence in-the-moment SRB/CUR intentions as well as daily alcohol use and SRB/CUR. The investigators will also examine whether the relationships among assessed variables are similar across experimental and naturalistic settings. That is, investigate the extent to which men's responses in the lab parallel their real-world drinking and SRB/CUR behaviors, particularly regarding self and partner emotions, empathy, and interpersonal stress.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Alcoholic Beverage
  Participants will consume an alcoholic beverage (vodka mixed with fruit juice) that is the equivalent of 3-4 standard alcoholic drinks based on their body weight.
• Поведенческое Non-alcoholic Beverage
  Participants will consume a nonalcoholic beverage (fruit juice) that is the isovolemic equivalent of 3-4 standard alcoholic drinks based on their body weight.
• Поведенческое Partner Negative Mood Manipulation
  Participants will engage in a laboratory task and will then report their own and their partner's emotions following the task.
• Поведенческое Partner Positive Mood Manipulation
  Participants will engage in a laboratory task and will then report their own and their partner's emotions following the task.

Первичные конечные точки

• Mean score of sexual risk intentions [Срок оценки: within one hour of receiving the intervention]

Вторичные конечные точки (1)

• Sexual risk behavior [Срок оценки: 6 months]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• Single
• Male
• Ages 21-30
• Engagement in unprotected intercourse with a woman at least once in the past year
• Consumed alcohol at least 1 time per week in the past 30 days
• Had sex with a woman at least 2 times in the past 30 days

Критерии исключения

• A history of alcohol problems
• A medical condition and/or medications which contraindicate alcohol consumption
• In a relationship that is monogamous and has lasted longer than 6 months

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Нет

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Факторный дизайн

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Фундаментальное исследование

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• Arizona State University — Phoenix

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06158880 · STUDY00018369 · 4R37AA025212

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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