TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the feasibility of a life history calendar to measure HIV risk and health in older South Africans
AU - Schatz, Enid
AU - Knight, Lucia
AU - Belli, Robert F.
AU - Mojola, Sanyu A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was facilitated by a Fulbright Foundation Research/Teaching Grant and a University of Missouri Research Leave which allowed Enid Schatz to spend 7 months working at the University of Western Cape. Data collection was supported by the University of Missouri Research Council and MU School of Health Professions Catalyst Grant (E Schatz, PI). We are grateful for funding support from the National Institute on Aging – R01 AG049634 HIV after 40 in rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV epidemic (S. A. Mojola, PI) - and Princeton University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, in April 2019; we thank Sara Yeatman, the paper’s discussant, for helpful comments. We would like to thank the interviewers who conducted the research, and the participants in Khayelitsha and Agincourt who shared their time with us.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Schatz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Life history calendars capture patterns of behavior over time, uncovering transitions and trajectories. Despite the growing numbers of older persons living with HIV in southern Africa, little is known about how HIV testing and risk unfold in this population. Operationalizing a life course approach with the use of an innovative Testing and Risk History Calendar [TRHC], we collected pilot data on older South Africans’ risk and HIV testing. We found older persons were able to provide (1) reference points to facilitate recall over a 10-year period, (2) specifics about HIV tests during that decade, and (3) details that contextualize the testing data, such as living arrangements, relationships, and health status. Interviewer debriefing sessions after each interview captured information on context and links across domains. On a larger scale, the TRHC has potential to reveal pathways between sexual behavior, HIV testing and risk perception, and health at older ages.
AB - Life history calendars capture patterns of behavior over time, uncovering transitions and trajectories. Despite the growing numbers of older persons living with HIV in southern Africa, little is known about how HIV testing and risk unfold in this population. Operationalizing a life course approach with the use of an innovative Testing and Risk History Calendar [TRHC], we collected pilot data on older South Africans’ risk and HIV testing. We found older persons were able to provide (1) reference points to facilitate recall over a 10-year period, (2) specifics about HIV tests during that decade, and (3) details that contextualize the testing data, such as living arrangements, relationships, and health status. Interviewer debriefing sessions after each interview captured information on context and links across domains. On a larger scale, the TRHC has potential to reveal pathways between sexual behavior, HIV testing and risk perception, and health at older ages.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0226024
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0226024
M3 - Article
C2 - 31940307
AN - SCOPUS:85077941439
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 15
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 1
M1 - e0226024
ER -