@article{30b7b00b999c43beae4483aebc8c7801,
title = "Male Partners of Young Women: Assessing Their Attitudes toward Topical Microbicides",
abstract = "Male partners' attitudes toward microbicide use are important to understand; however, there are challenges in conducting research with adolescent couples. We describe the experience of recruiting male partners of adolescent females enrolled in a microbicide acceptability study. Creative solutions to enrolling partners of young women in studies need to be explored.",
keywords = "Adolescents, Ethics, Microbicides, Research participation, Sexually transmitted infections",
author = "Auslander, {Beth A.} and Rupp, {Richard E.} and Short, {Mary B.} and Rosenthal, {Susan L.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health/Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (R01 HD40151-01, Principal Investigator, Susan L. Rosenthal). It was also supported in part by the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston funded by grant M01RR00073 from the National Center for Research Resources, NIH, and USPHS. We would like to thank The Teen Health Center, Inc. and Galveston College for helping in the recruitment phases of this study. We also would like to acknowledge our research team (Elissa Brown, Stephanie Ramos, Jennifer Yates, and E. Alexandra Zubowicz) for their outstanding work in collecting and managing the data. Finally, we wish to thank all the young women and males for their participation in this research study. ",
year = "2008",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.01.024",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "626--628",
journal = "Journal of Adolescent Health",
issn = "1054-139X",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "6",
}