Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on racial/ethnic disparities in the survival of older men treated for locoregional prostate cancer.

Background: Racial disparities persist in prostate cancer (CaP) treatment and survival, but disparities in androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and the degree to which it affects racial differences in survival remains to be fully assessed.

Methods: Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare linked data, we examined a large cohort of men (N = 64,475) diagnosed with locoregional CaP during 1992 to 1999 and followed through 2003. The effects of ADT and race on survival were analyzed using a Cox proportional hazards model.

Epidemiologic and behavioral characterization of knowledge of condom use and modeling among military personnel.

How accurately condoms are being used vary across populations and knowledge of the factors determining its proper use remains unclear. Knowledge of such differentials and determinants would aid in evaluating the contributions of condom use to HIV epidemic reduction. Baseline data from the Situationally Focused Individual HIV/AIDS intervention to promote HIV protective behavior among 2,213 Nigerian Military Personnel were analyzed.

Racial variance in rationale for HIV testing in community-based setting in the United States: evidence from the National Health Interview Survey.

Background: HIV testing varies across racial/ethnic groups in the United States, but it is unclear whether the rationale for testing differs as well racially. The authors aimed to assess the rationale for HIV testing and the racial/ethnic variation therein.

Methods: Using the National Health Interview Survey 2003 (n = 29 753), the authors examined the association between rationale for HIV testing and race.

Influence of educational status and other variables on human immunodeficiency virus risk perception among military personnel: a large cohort finding.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk perception remains an effective determinant of HIV transmission. Although higher educational attainment has been associated with increased HIV risk perception, this predictor remains to be assessed among Nigerian military personnel (NMP). In a prospective cohort of 2,213 NMP, the effects of education and other factors on HIV risk perception were assessed at baseline by using the X2 statistic and unconditional logistic regression.

Emerging sociodemographic and lifestyle predictors of intention to use condom in human immunodeficiency virus intervention among uniformed services personnel.

Appropriate and consistent use of condom remains an effective approach to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) intervention. We analyzed the baseline data gathered for a situationally based HIV/AIDS intervention to assess the potential predictors of condom use among the Uniformed Services Personnel in Nigeria. Using condom purchase as a proxy for intention to use condom, we examined the distribution of the demographic and lifestyle characteristics, knowledge of HIV transmission mode, and knowledge of how to correctly use a condom.