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Article: Self-monitoring of behaviour as a risk reduction strategy for people with HIV.(ROUND UP: HIV and AIDS)(human immunodeficiency virus)(Brief article)
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- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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A study with 365 people living with HIV examined the impact of repeated self-assessments of risky behaviour as an intervention strategy for reducing sexual and injection drug-related risk behaviours. Participants were recruited from treatment clinics and completed anonymous questionnaires on laptop computers approximately every three months. This form of self-monitoring resulted in increases in protected sex with sexual partners who were HIV-negative or of unknown HIV status, and there were also changes in attitude conducive to reducing risk. It is likely that by having patients acknowledge risk-related behaviours to themselves, their motivation to reduce these behaviours ...