Getting your partner to use condoms: Interviews with men and women at risk of HIV/STDs |
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| Authors: | Sheryl Thorburn Bird S. Marie Harvey Linda J. Beckman Christa H. Johnson The PARTNERS Project |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Oregon, Center for the Study of Women in Society , 1201, Eugene, OR, 97403–1201 E-mail: stbird@oregon.uoregon.edu;2. University of Oregon , Berkeley, California;3. Public Health Institute , Berkeley, California;4. Alliant University , Los Angeles;5. Children's Hospital of Oklahoma , |
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| Abstract: | Data from individual semistructured interviews with 90 young heterosexual couples were analyzed to identify strategies that men and women at risk of HIV/STDs would use to influence their partners to use condoms for the purpose of disease prevention. In addition, we explored whether participants thought influencing strategies would differ for pregnancy prevention. Content analysis of the interview data indicated that participants would use the following verbal strategies: persuading/suggesting, commanding/asserting, and threatening to withhold sex. Several participants, particularly those who had recently used condoms with their partners, reported that they would also use non‐verbal strategies involving condoms themselves (e.g., putting a condom on, buying or getting condoms, or presenting a condom to their partner). Many participants believed that they would use a different strategy for pregnancy prevention because it would be easier to convince a partner to use condoms for that purpose. |
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