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Couples often disagree on what they’ve told each other, study finds
Gus Cairns, 2011-09-22 19:10:00
A US study on heterosexual couples at high risk of HIV finds that individuals’ interpretation of their relationship, their reporting of behaviour within the relationship and, especially, their recollection of whether they’ve disclosed sexual risks differ substantially between men and women.
Dr Kathy Hageman of the US Centers for Disease Control told the tenth AIDS Impact conference that, even in situations where the same proportion of men and women in the study agreed that a particular behaviour (such as condom use, anal sex or domestic violence) had happened, only about 50% of these behaviours were reported by both partners in the relationship.
This is one of the first studies attempting to quantify the degree of over- or under-reporting of sexual risks and other behaviours in couples,
The study was the Heterosexual Partner Study (HPS), a substudy of the high-risk heterosexual section of the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System (NHBSS), a series of annual surveys that are conducted in the US annually in various high-prevalence areas. Surveys are carried out in different locations amongst men who have sex with men, injecting drug users and heterosexuals at high risk of HIV; another study from the NHBSS presented at AIDS Impact documented awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in gay men.
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