Predictors of high risk sexual behaviour in gay and bisexual men
Dawson, J.; Fitzpatrick, R.; Boulton, M.; Mclean, J.; Hart, G.
Sozial- und Praventivmedizin 37(2): 79-84
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-8408 PMID: 1604939 DOI: 10.1007/bf01322737Document Number: 576168
Evidence of high risk sex between gay men continues to be reported, as does a range of sexual behaviour. Three hundred and sixyt-nine homosexually active men from different area of England [UK] were each assessed twice at an an interval of 9 months in order to examine the extent to which a number of social-psychological factors predicted subsequent high risk sexual behaviour. Few of the variable were significantly related to unprotected receptive and sex in the way that the Health Belief Model predicted, except for some perceptions of costs and benefits of safer sex. However, whether or not men were involved in a regular relationship with a partner was strongly associated with high risk behaviour. The implications of these results are that health education intervations should focus on altering all men to the social content in which high risk sex is more likely to happen: the regular partnership.
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