Behavioural Surveillance Surveys - The Wisdom of Whores

Section 4 : Regular partners
Q401. This question is a filter and requires
the interviewer to look back at 304. If the
respondent is married, or is living with
someone with whom they have a sexual
relationship, the questions in section 4 should
be asked. If not, skip to section 5.
Q402. Record the number of times the
respondent states they have had sex with their
last regular partner during the past 30 days.
Here the question refers to the last occasion
of sexual intercourse with a spouse, or live-in
sexual partner. This question provides data
for the AVERT model which calculates number
of infections averted in response to interventions.
You may have to probe to obtain
accurate information.
Q403. Again, this question applies to
the last sexual intercourse with any regular
partner (either a spouse or live-in partner).
This question is worded differently depending
on the sex of the respondent. For male
respondents, you ask : “The last time you had
sex with a regular partner, did you use a
condom?” For female respondents, you ask :
“The last time you had sex with a regular
partner, did your partner use a condom?”
This difference recognizes that females don’t
technically “use” condoms. Record the answer
in the boxes provided. Pay attention to skip
patterns. If the respondent did not use a
condom, skip to 405 and ask why. If the
respondent answers DON’T KNOW or does
not answer, skip to 406. Q403 is one of three
key condom use indicators measured in this
questionnaire : ever-use of condoms, condom
use at last sex by partner type, and frequency
of condom use by partner type.
Q404. The purpose of this question is to
determine who initiated use of condoms at the
last use. This question will be skipped if 403
is anything other than “yes”. There is only
one possible answer.
Q405. If a condom was not used,
as reported in 403, then you will ask the
respondent why he didn’t use a condom,
or why her partner didn’t use a condom.
In this question, multiple answers are possible.
During pretesting, determine if other categories
might be appropriate and add them. Do not
read out the answers. Simply mark 1 (YES)
for each answer mentioned by the respondent.
All other answers then automatically become
“no” answers and should be marked as such.
Make the circles carefully so that the answers
are clear to the people who will be coding the
interviews. Each category should be marked
either “yes” or “no.”
Q406. The purpose of this question is
to assess frequency of condom use with the
last regular partner on a four-point scale of
“every time”, “most times”, “occasionally”,
and “never”. The wording of the question is
slightly different by gender, and both wordings
appear in the questionnaires. If the respondent’s
answer does not fit easily into one of the four
categories, you may say, “would you say you
used a condom with your last regular partner
every time, most times, occasionally, or never?”
Circle the response mentioned.
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