Jeffrey P Aguinaldo
Biographic Data
| ID | 248140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey P Aguinaldo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey P |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguinaldo |
| SIGNATURE | AGUINALDO J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2744-5515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Constructing victimhood in Canadian news coverage of HIV criminalisation
A robust body of research has documented the representational politics of news coverage in their depiction of HIV‐positive people charged for HIV non‐disclosure. News media representations of HIV‐negative sex partners in cases of HIV non‐disclosure have received far less scholarly attention. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, this article identifies how “victims” of HIV non‐disclosure are constructed in news media. It is based on a da…
Ethics review and conversation analysis
In this case study, I address the procedural ethics of conversation analysis (CA) and the collection of naturally occurring mundane interactions. I draw from the challenges that emerged from the institutional ethics review of the HIV, health and interaction study (the H2I Study), a CA project that sought to identify the practices through which normative assumptions of HIV and other health conditions are produced in conversations. Consistent with …
Needs and Supports in Transitional Housing for People Living with HIV/Aids in Ontario, Canada
There is a paucity of research on transitional housing for people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and even less so within the Canadian context. The present work addresses that gap and reports on the results from the Transitional Housing Study, a province wide community-based research collaboration involving PHA, service providers, and university researchers in Ontario Canada. This article answers the following research questions: What supports do resi…
Rethinking Validity in Qualitative Research from a Social Constructionist Perspective
This article theorizes the issue of validity that is premised upon social constructionist assumptions, particularly as it is applied to the assessment of qualitative research. As a social construction, validity must thus be interrogated for its discursive function within the social sciences. I will argue that, as a criterion of assessment, validity polices the social science enterprise and thus, functions as a practice of power through the de/leg…
Qualitative Analysis in Gay Men's Health Research
Gay men's health typically relies on traditional forms of qualitative analysis, such as thematic analysis, and would benefit from a diversity of analytic approaches. Such diversity offers public health researchers a breadth of tools to address different kinds of research questions and, thus, substantiate different types of social phenomenon relevant to the health and wellbeing of gay men. In this article, I compare and contrast three qualitative …
It's not rocket science, what I do”
I've heard wonderful things about you'
This investigation was motivated by physician reports that patient compliments often raise 'red flags' for them, raising questions about whether compliments are being used in the service of achieving some kind of advantage. Our goal was to understand physician discomfort with patient compliments through analyses of audiotaped surgeon-patient encounters. Using conversation analysis, we demonstrate that both the placement and design of compliments …
Delayed application of condoms with safer and unsafe sex
While condom use remains one of the most effective measures to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV, decreasing attention appears to be given to its importance and techniques of effective use relative to potential biomedical technologies. This paper focuses on delayed condom application (DCA), one practice which has been implicated in HIV transmission among gay and bisexual men. It examines the prevalence of the practice within a gay community …
Accounts of HIV Seroconversion Among Substance-Using Gay and Bisexual Men
Statistical associations between substance use and seroconversion among gay and bisexual men abound. However, these associations often ignore men's own interpretations of their seroconversion. Using in-depth interviews with gay and bisexual men who reported using drugs or alcohol at the time of their seroconversion, we identify how these men explain the events that led to HIV transmission. Whereas a small minority of respondents reported substanc…
The social construction of gay oppression as a determinant of gay men's health
Where once the health sciences concentrated much of their efforts on curing homosexuality, contemporary health science is concerned largely with the mental and physical effects of oppression, which are now taken as the legitimate focus of health research and intervention. However, gay men's health has imported into its practice a fairly individualistic ideology, one that undermines efforts to address the social determinants of health and to achie…
A Discursive Approach to Disinhibition Theory
HIV research and prevention commonly cite disinhibition theory as an explanation for HIV infection among gay men. Analyzing qualitative interview data in which men talk about recreational substance use and their safer sex practices, we interrogate the concept of disinhibition theory from a discursive perspective. From this perspective, we treat talk not as a route or resource to something presumed to lie beyond the talk, but as a form of action d…
Impact on HIV test providers of giving a positive test result
The provision of a positive HIV antibody test result and the direction and support given to the test recipient are critical components of care and prevention. There has been little research that describes what happens in such interactions between recipient and provider. The impact on the test provider of delivering the HIV test result is an important issue to consider. The discomfort experienced by some health providers in giving a positive test …
How Drug using men who have sex with men account for substance use during Sexual Behaviours
Much HIV prevention research ignores the underlying reasons why drug-using men who have sex with men (DU-MSM) use substances during sex. The present study explores DU-MSM descriptions of the relationships among substance use, sex, and risky sex practices. Twenty-seven in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with sexually active DU-MSM. The research findings illustrate six roles of substances within the sexual lives of DU-MSM: Enhancing the…
Qualitative Analysis in Gay Men's Health Research
Gay men's health typically relies on traditional forms of qualitative analysis, such as thematic analysis, and would benefit from a diversity of analytic approaches. Such diversity offers public health researchers a breadth of tools to address different kinds of research questions and, thus, substantiate different types of social phenomenon relevant to the health and wellbeing of gay men. In this article, I compare and contrast three qualitative …
A Discursive Approach to Disinhibition Theory
HIV research and prevention commonly cite disinhibition theory as an explanation for HIV infection among gay men. Analyzing qualitative interview data in which men talk about recreational substance use and their safer sex practices, we interrogate the concept of disinhibition theory from a discursive perspective. From this perspective, we treat talk not as a route or resource to something presumed to lie beyond the talk, but as a form of action d…
I've heard wonderful things about you'
This investigation was motivated by physician reports that patient compliments often raise 'red flags' for them, raising questions about whether compliments are being used in the service of achieving some kind of advantage. Our goal was to understand physician discomfort with patient compliments through analyses of audiotaped surgeon-patient encounters. Using conversation analysis, we demonstrate that both the placement and design of compliments …
Rethinking Validity in Qualitative Research from a Social Constructionist Perspective
This article theorizes the issue of validity that is premised upon social constructionist assumptions, particularly as it is applied to the assessment of qualitative research. As a social construction, validity must thus be interrogated for its discursive function within the social sciences. I will argue that, as a criterion of assessment, validity polices the social science enterprise and thus, functions as a practice of power through the de/leg…
Accounts of HIV Seroconversion Among Substance-Using Gay and Bisexual Men
Statistical associations between substance use and seroconversion among gay and bisexual men abound. However, these associations often ignore men's own interpretations of their seroconversion. Using in-depth interviews with gay and bisexual men who reported using drugs or alcohol at the time of their seroconversion, we identify how these men explain the events that led to HIV transmission. Whereas a small minority of respondents reported substanc…
How Drug using men who have sex with men account for substance use during Sexual Behaviours
Much HIV prevention research ignores the underlying reasons why drug-using men who have sex with men (DU-MSM) use substances during sex. The present study explores DU-MSM descriptions of the relationships among substance use, sex, and risky sex practices. Twenty-seven in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with sexually active DU-MSM. The research findings illustrate six roles of substances within the sexual lives of DU-MSM: Enhancing the…
Impact on HIV test providers of giving a positive test result
The provision of a positive HIV antibody test result and the direction and support given to the test recipient are critical components of care and prevention. There has been little research that describes what happens in such interactions between recipient and provider. The impact on the test provider of delivering the HIV test result is an important issue to consider. The discomfort experienced by some health providers in giving a positive test …
The social construction of gay oppression as a determinant of gay men's health
Where once the health sciences concentrated much of their efforts on curing homosexuality, contemporary health science is concerned largely with the mental and physical effects of oppression, which are now taken as the legitimate focus of health research and intervention. However, gay men's health has imported into its practice a fairly individualistic ideology, one that undermines efforts to address the social determinants of health and to achie…
A Discursive Approach to Disinhibition Theory
HIV research and prevention commonly cite disinhibition theory as an explanation for HIV infection among gay men. Analyzing qualitative interview data in which men talk about recreational substance use and their safer sex practices, we interrogate the concept of disinhibition theory from a discursive perspective. From this perspective, we treat talk not as a route or resource to something presumed to lie beyond the talk, but as a form of action d…
Delayed application of condoms with safer and unsafe sex
While condom use remains one of the most effective measures to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV, decreasing attention appears to be given to its importance and techniques of effective use relative to potential biomedical technologies. This paper focuses on delayed condom application (DCA), one practice which has been implicated in HIV transmission among gay and bisexual men. It examines the prevalence of the practice within a gay community …
Accounts of HIV Seroconversion Among Substance-Using Gay and Bisexual Men
Statistical associations between substance use and seroconversion among gay and bisexual men abound. However, these associations often ignore men's own interpretations of their seroconversion. Using in-depth interviews with gay and bisexual men who reported using drugs or alcohol at the time of their seroconversion, we identify how these men explain the events that led to HIV transmission. Whereas a small minority of respondents reported substanc…
I've heard wonderful things about you'
This investigation was motivated by physician reports that patient compliments often raise 'red flags' for them, raising questions about whether compliments are being used in the service of achieving some kind of advantage. Our goal was to understand physician discomfort with patient compliments through analyses of audiotaped surgeon-patient encounters. Using conversation analysis, we demonstrate that both the placement and design of compliments …
It's not rocket science, what I do”
Qualitative Analysis in Gay Men's Health Research
Gay men's health typically relies on traditional forms of qualitative analysis, such as thematic analysis, and would benefit from a diversity of analytic approaches. Such diversity offers public health researchers a breadth of tools to address different kinds of research questions and, thus, substantiate different types of social phenomenon relevant to the health and wellbeing of gay men. In this article, I compare and contrast three qualitative …
Rethinking Validity in Qualitative Research from a Social Constructionist Perspective
This article theorizes the issue of validity that is premised upon social constructionist assumptions, particularly as it is applied to the assessment of qualitative research. As a social construction, validity must thus be interrogated for its discursive function within the social sciences. I will argue that, as a criterion of assessment, validity polices the social science enterprise and thus, functions as a practice of power through the de/leg…
Needs and Supports in Transitional Housing for People Living with HIV/Aids in Ontario, Canada
There is a paucity of research on transitional housing for people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) and even less so within the Canadian context. The present work addresses that gap and reports on the results from the Transitional Housing Study, a province wide community-based research collaboration involving PHA, service providers, and university researchers in Ontario Canada. This article answers the following research questions: What supports do resi…
Ethics review and conversation analysis
In this case study, I address the procedural ethics of conversation analysis (CA) and the collection of naturally occurring mundane interactions. I draw from the challenges that emerged from the institutional ethics review of the HIV, health and interaction study (the H2I Study), a CA project that sought to identify the practices through which normative assumptions of HIV and other health conditions are produced in conversations. Consistent with …
Constructing victimhood in Canadian news coverage of HIV criminalisation
A robust body of research has documented the representational politics of news coverage in their depiction of HIV‐positive people charged for HIV non‐disclosure. News media representations of HIV‐negative sex partners in cases of HIV non‐disclosure have received far less scholarly attention. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, this article identifies how “victims” of HIV non‐disclosure are constructed in news media. It is based on a da…
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Qualitative research (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works)