@article{ac15721cd4c94964824b58f98d2eb4a8,
title = "Alcohol-related Behavioral Research and its Integration into Primary and Secondary HIV Preventive Interventions: Introduction",
abstract = "The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to and description of the contents of this special issue of AIDS and Behavior. The article begins with a description of the rationale for the special issue and the origin of its compilation. This background information is followed by a brief description of the main articles that are included in the special issue, which is structured by Gaist and Stirrat{\textquoteright}s [4] definitions of types of behavioral and social science research for HIV-AIDS research. The “bookend” article to this introduction is by Robert Freeman and identifies future directions for research and clinical practice that the special issue articles{\textquoteright} content suggests.",
keywords = "Alcohol Related Behavioral Research, Background, HIV prevention, Rationale, Special Issue",
author = "{Syracuse University} and {National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism} and Maisto, {Stephen A.} and Robert Freeman and Kendall Bryant",
note = "Funding Information: The papers selected for inclusion in this Special Issue of AIDS & Behavior developed out of a series of meetings held at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in 2018–2019 and supported by a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) conference grant awarded to Stephen A. Maisto, Syracuse University (U13 AA024987). Maisto had proposed a series of 2-day meetings that would bring together alcohol researchers and HIV/AIDS prevention scientists in an effort to advance understanding of how alcohol use interacts with multiple biopsychosocial factors in contributing to HIV-risky behavior. The idea for the conference series grew out of the observation that––despite the fact that 51% of the U.S. population aged 12 or older had used alcohol in the past month in 2018 []––alcohol consumption as a behavioral risk factor had not been integrated well into the prevailing behavioral models of HIV prevention. Despite some significant advances in both basic behavioral and HIV preventive intervention research, as well as research on the acute effects of alcohol on HIV-related sexual risk, a gap remained at the intersection of these two lines of research. Thus, Noar{\textquoteright}s [] review in 2007 of the prominent conceptual models then guiding behavioral preventive interventions for HIV revealed that these models largely had overlooked alcohol{\textquoteright}s role in the complex of factors deemed to be determinants of HIV sexual risk behaviors. This gap was significant, because findings from experimental and observational research had suggested that alcohol consumption was positively related to event-level HIV sexual risk, although the relationship likely was mediated and moderated by other factors that cut across the biopsychosocial and situational domains. Moreover, Simons, Maisto, and Palfai [] have enhanced the significance of such research by providing empirical support for the ecological validity of findings generated from laboratory experiments on the acute effects of alcohol in conjunction with psychological factors on sexual decision-making in MSM. It seemed apparent that a better appreciation of alcohol{\textquoteright}s acute effects on HIV risk in models of HIV prevention might yield significant advances in any ensuing interventions. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s10461-021-03420-8",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "25",
pages = "233--236",
journal = "AIDS and Behavior",
issn = "1090-7165",
publisher = "Springer New York",
}