Implications for the treatment of relationally -
discordant couples are discussed.
There were no significant variations between couples who both did not drink and any of the other groups (
discordant couples or concordant drinkers).
Hirnschall explains that a group of outside experts began a review of the evidence late last year before making five recommendations for
discordant couples.
News from a second study in
discordant couples, suddenly announced the week before the Rome meeting began, made the draft guidelines potentially even more confusing.
The data come from HIV
discordant couples enrolled in ZEHRP as part of IAVI's Protocol C epidemiological study, supported by USAID.
Further complicating matters, treatment makes infected people less infectious and is a form of prevention itself; next week, the World Health Organization is expected to recommend that all infected people in
discordant couples receive ARVs — a huge challenge for many resource - limited countries.
None of the other PrEP studies recruited
discordant couples.
Not exact matches
Partners PrEP began in July 2008 and enrolled 4758 «
discordant»
couples in Kenya and Uganda that at the start had only one HIV - infected partner.
«There is an increase in divorce in
couples in which there is
discordant drinking,» says Andrey Ryabinin at Oregon Health and Science University.
WHO had planned to release «
discordant»
couple guidelines, in the works for several months, at the Rome gathering, but pulled the plug at the eleventh hour.
Age -
discordant crosscultural relationships can be tough, top that with a Ukrainian / Russian - Western
couple and it's going...
While the story grows confusing at times, the only
discordant notes are a
couple of narratives that focus on fringe characters who appear to exist only to move the story along.
I also planned ahead for an event on the Tuesday night, since it was in my neighbourhood, but it turned out to be pretty awful: a loud
discordant brass band with
couples slow dancing in front of the stage.
Although previous research on younger
couples revealed that
discordant heavy drinking (rather than only drinking status) is associated with lower marital satisfaction and divorce (Leonard et al., 2014; Mudar et al., 2001), the present study contributes to the literature by showing that concordance on drinking status (i.e., drinker vs. no drinker) appears to be more important for negative marital relationship quality among older
couples than frequency or quantity of consumption.
Concordant and
discordant alcohol use has significant implications for marital quality among younger
couples.
In a study of older
couples, however,
discordant high - risk alcohol consumption (3 or more drinks a day and / or 14 drinks per week) was not related to decreased marital quality (Moos, Schutte, Brennan, & Moos, 2011).
Discordant drinking
couples may use more destructive conflict strategies (e.g., yelling and insults) or more negative regulation strategies (e.g., threats and punishment) to attempt to reduce partner drinking (Rodriguez, Dibello, & Wickham, 2016).
Discordant heavy drinking
couples (i.e., one partner drinks heavily or to intoxication and the other does not) reported lower marital quality than concordant heavy drinking
couples (i.e., both are heavy drinkers or both are not heavy drinkers), and there were no gender differences in the effects.
Practitioners should be aware that older
couples» marital quality may be negatively affected by
discordant alcohol use even at very low levels of discordance.
Torvik and colleagues examined
couples aged 20 and older in Norway and found that concordant abstainers and concordant heavy drinkers (e.g., drinking 10 or more times over 2 weeks and endorsed at least one indicator of hazardous drinking) had lower divorce rates, but that among
discordant drinkers, heavy drinking only among wives was a stronger predictor of divorce than heavy drinking only among husbands (Torvik, Røysamb, Gustavson, Idstad, & Tambs, 2013).
For example,
couples who are concordant or
discordant on alcohol use may be similar or dissimilar on several other dimensions of their relationship.