Impact of level of researcher support on coital diary results and acceptability among women at high risk of HIV in the microbicides development programme feasibility study in Mwanza, Tanzania

Abstract

Background: Low literacy and desire to conceal socially proscribed activities may hamper measurement of STI risk behaviour, especially in developing countries. Amongst vulnerable women, we compared reporting of sexual behaviour between pictorial coital diaries (CDs) and face-to-face interviews (FFIs), assessing which method was more sensitive to level of researcher support.