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OBJECTIVE: "Arte con Salud" is an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention tailored for Puerto Rican women who have sex with men. The intervention curriculum was refined through a community-academic collaboration between Taller Salud, the UPRCayey Campus, and the UCC-School of Medicine, subsided in 2012-13 by PRCTRC. The collaboration has been crucial to validate the impact of using art as a tool to facilitate sexual negotiation skills and safer sexual practices among adult women have sex with men participating in HIV prevention education. METHODS: This article describes the vision, valley, victory phases endured to establish a community-academia partnership based on the CPPR framework as an effective mean to implement a randomized controlled trial intervention (RCT). We also discuss the barriers, outcomes, and lessons learned from this partnership. RESULTS: Some of the identified solutions include: setting goals to secure funding, regular meetings, and the inclusion of undergraduate level students to assist in the implementation of the intervention. These solutions helped to build trust among the community and academic partners. As a result of this collaboration, a total of 86 participants were enrolled and 5 competitive research grants have been submitted. CONCLUSION: The community-academic collaboration was essential in order to build a solid research infrastructure that addresses the complexities of HIV prevention education among groups of Puerto Rican women.
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Arte , Pesquisa Participativa Baseada na Comunidade , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Promoção da Saúde/métodos , Saúde Pública , Feminino , Humanos , Porto RicoRESUMO
Sexual negotiation has been proved to be one of the most effective prevention strategies for managing the conflicts related with sexual safe practice and to help women to protect themselves from contracting HIV/AIDS. Self-efficacy is a main concept in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT); it constitutes a mediator variable during sexual negotiation. The objective of this study was to explore self efficacy perception in a group of Puerto Rican women (N=110). We administered the Self-Efficacy Scale. Women perceived themselves with lower levels of self efficacy when negotiating non-penetrative sexual practices and managing their emotions during sexual negotiation. We discuss the implications of the use of self-efficacy in developing HIV preventive interventions in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
La negociación se ha planteado como la estrategia más adecuada para trabajar conflictos vinculados a las prócticas sexuales seguras, alternativa que le permite a las mujeres protegerse contra el VIH/SIDA. La autoeficacia, concepto central de la Teoría Social Cognitiva (TSC), constituye una variable mediadora en dicho proceso. Por esto, este estudio tuvo como objetivo examinar la percepción de autoeficacia en un grupo de mujeres universitarias puertorriqueñas (N=110) como resultado de la administración de la Escala de Autoeficacia (EAE). Entre los resultados mós pertinentes encontramos que las mujeres expresaron percibirse menos autoeficaces negociando la próctica de conductas no penetrativas, y manejando sus emociones. Discutimos las implicaciones que tiene la autoeficacia particularmente en el desarrollo de intervenciones preventivas del VIH/SIDA tanto en Puerto Rico como el Caribe.
