caa a22 4500 606231641 CHVBK 20210128101221.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0362-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0362-7 The Effects of Alcohol, Relationship Power, and Partner Type on Perceived Difficulty Implementing Condom Use Among African American Adults: An Experimental Study [Elektronische Daten] [Sarah Woolf-King, Stephen Maisto] African American adults are disproportionately affected by HIV in the United States, underscoring the need for additional research on barriers to condom use. Guided by the theory of gender and power, this experimental study used a series of vignettes to test causal hypotheses regarding the influence of event-level alcohol use (present and absent), partner type (serious and casual), and relationship power (low and equal) on perceived difficulty implementing condom use. A total of 299 (151 women and 148 men) heterosexual African American adults indicated how "difficult” it would be to use a condom after reading 8 hypothetical sexual encounters, presented in a random order. A 2×2×2×2 repeated measures analysis of covariance with one between subjects factor (gender) and one covariate (condom use self-efficacy) was used to estimate the effects of these variables on an index of perceived difficulty. The women in the study reported significantly higher ratings of difficulty implementing condom use in vignettes characterized by low relationship power (p<.001) and presence of alcohol use (p<.001); the manipulated independent variables did not produce any main effects for men. Both men and women's ratings of perceived difficulty decreased as condom use self-efficacy increased (p<.001). This is the first study to use an experimental methodology to test hypotheses about barriers to condom use among a community-based sample of African American adults. These data can be used to enhance existing HIV prevention interventions. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Condom use nationallicence African American nationallicence Alcohol nationallicence Relationship power nationallicence Partner-type nationallicence Woolf-King Sarah Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California, 50 Beale Street, Suite 1300, 94105, San Francisco, CA, USA aut Maisto Stephen Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 571-581 0004-0002 44:3<571 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0362-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0362-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Woolf-King Sarah Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, University of California, 50 Beale Street, Suite 1300, 94105, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maisto Stephen Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 571-581 0004-0002 44:3<571 2015 44 10508