Survivor Guilt As A Community Wide Experience And Its Relationship To Hiv Risk Behavior In Non Hiv Positive Men Who Have Sex With Men

This study investigated a proposed link between survivor guilt and HIV risk behavior in a sample of 321 men who have sex with men (MSM) who reported they were not HIV-positive; these men presented for psychological services at the University of California, San Francisco AIDS Health Project (AHP) between July 1, 1998 and June 30, 2002 and were divided into 4 year-cohorts (July 1, 1998–June 30, 1999; July 1, 1999–June 30, 2000; July 1, 2000–June 30, 2001; July 1, 2001–June 30, 2002). Participants were primarily European American, aged 21 to 62 years, with a mean monthly income of $2326. The majority had at least some college education.