Who Can I Ask? Who Would I Tell? An Egocentric Network Analysis Among a Sample of Women At-Risk to Explore Anticipated Advice Seeking and Disclosure Around Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Laura M. Johnson, Harold D. Green, Minggen Lu, Jamila K. Stockman, Marisa Felsher, Alexis M. Roth and Karla D. Wagner
Medicine Medicine & Public Health Original Paper Health Psychology Infectious Diseases Public Health
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) health campaigns invite women to talk with their provider, partner, and peers about PrEP, though they do not offer specific guidance about who and how to engage. This study uses egocentric network methods in a sample of women at risk for HIV to understand what characteristics of women (egos), their networks, and network members (alters) were associated with anticipated PrEP advice-seeking and anticipated PrEP disclosure. Multivariable generalized linear mixed models revealed that women often consider close, supportive, and trusted network members as PrEP discussants while ego-level, network-level, and cross-level interactions depict the complexity of anticipated network activation. Findings highlight the importance of considering women at risk for HIV in a broader social context. Anticipated advice-seeking and disclosure related to PrEP were associated but distinct forms of network activation, which highlights the need to develop specific recommendations about who and how women should engage with their networks around PrEP.
Who Can I Ask? Who Would I Tell? An Egocentric Network Analysis Among a Sample of Women At-Risk to Explore Anticipated Advice Seeking and Disclosure Around Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Creators
Laura M. Johnson - University of Nevada, Reno
Harold D. Green - Indiana University
Minggen Lu - University of Nevada, Reno
Jamila K. Stockman - University of California San Diego
Marisa Felsher - Johns Hopkins University
Alexis M. Roth - Johns Hopkins University
Karla D. Wagner - University of Nevada, Reno
Publication Details
AIDS and behavior, v 26(9), pp 2866-2880
Publisher
Springer US
Grant note
R01DA038185; K01DA031031; R21DA043417-02 / national institute on drug abuse (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000026)
P30AI036214 / san diego center for aids research
Resource Type
Journal article
Language
English
Academic Unit
Community Health and Prevention
Web of Science ID
WOS:000769530800001
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85125183840
Other Identifier
991019169109804721
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