       Document 0255
 DOCN  M9440255
 TI    Defining behavioral methods to prevent sexually transmitted diseases
       through intervention research.
 DT    9404
 AU    Aral SO; Peterman TA; Division of STD/HIV Prevention, National Center
       for Prevention; Services, National Centers for Disease Control and
       Prevention,; Atlanta, Georgia.
 SO    Infect Dis Clin North Am. 1993 Dec;7(4):861-73. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/94149267
 AB    This article focuses on efforts to use behavioral interventions to
       prevent STDs. Presented is a history of attempts to prevent and control
       STDs through behavior change and a summary of the main theoretic
       approaches to human behavior that have provided the scientific base for
       behavioral public health interventions. The authors also review the
       important behavior intervention studies, most of which have addressed
       chronic disease prevention. They specify the differences between
       behaviors that are associated with chronic disease and those that
       increase risk for STDs, as well as the implications of these differences
       for behavioral prevention of STDs. Finally, a review of the accumulating
       empiric evidence in the area of behavioral prevention of STDs is
       presented and a strategy for the development of methods to help change
       risk behaviors for STDS (including AIDS) is proposed.
 DE    Counseling  Female  Health Promotion  Human  HIV Infections/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL  Male  Risk Factors  *Sex Behavior  Sexually Transmitted
       Diseases/*PREVENTION & CONTROL  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW,
       TUTORIAL

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