Differences in misreporting of sexual behavior over time: implications for HIV trials.

Sex Transm Dis

From the *Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; †Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; ‡Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; §Comprehensive Health Centre (CHC)/Epidemiology Research and Training Unit (ERTU), Jamaica Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica; and ∥Clinical Sciences Division, FHI 360, Durham, NC.

Published: March 2015

We used data from a prospective study of 300 women attending a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Kingston, Jamaica, to compare participant self-report of recent semen exposure to actual semen exposure measured by prostate-specific antigen in vaginal swabs. Underreporting of semen exposure was significantly more frequent at follow-up than baseline, suggesting that the accuracy of reports of sexual behavior may vary over time.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324529PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000243DOI Listing

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