ReviewJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2006
HIV behavioral research online.
Review in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.
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65 citing papers in PubMed.
- Methods for Authenticating Participants in Fully Web-Based Mobile App Trials from the iReach Project: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- Use of Videos Improves Informed Consent Comprehension in Web-Based Surveys Among Internet-Using Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- An online randomized controlled trial evaluating HIV prevention digital media interventions for men who have sex with men.PloS one · 2012Trial
- Reducing HIV risk behavior of men who have sex with men through persuasive computing: results of the Men's INTernet Study-II.AIDS (London, England) · 2010Trial
- Effects of an Internet-based intervention for HIV prevention: the Youthnet trials.AIDS and behavior · 2009Trial
- Homophobia, economic precarity and the well-being of sexual and gender diverse people in a 153-country survey.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Implementing and retaining a large-scale technology-mediated cohort to study HIV incidence and PrEP uptake among vulnerable cisgender men as well as transgender individuals in the United States, the Together 5000 cohort.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Low Risk Perception of Harm From Substance Use and Sexual Behaviors Among Online Help-Seeking Sexual and Gender Minoritized People in San Francisco, California: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Latin American Internet Survey for Men who have Sex with Men (LAMIS-2018): Design, methods and implementation.PloS one · 2022Article
- Ethical Considerations in HIV eHealth Intervention Research: Implications for Informational Risk in Recruitment, Data Maintenance, and Consent Procedures.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2020Review
- Maximizing Response Rates to Ads for Free At-Home HIV Testing on a Men-for-Men Geosocial Sexual Networking App: Lessons Learned and Implications for Researchers and Providers.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2020Article
- "They know what they are getting into:" Researchers confront the benefits and challenges of online recruitment for HIV research.Ethics & behavior · 2020Article
- Seeing Is Believing? Unique Capabilities of Internet-Only Studies as a Tool for Implementation Research on HIV Prevention for Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Review of Studies and Methodological Considerations.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Article
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- Recruiting vulnerable populations to participate in HIV prevention research: findings from the Together 5000 cohort study.Annals of epidemiology · 2019Article
- Pilot feasibility trial of the MyPEEPS mobile app to reduce sexual risk among young men in 4 cities.JAMIA open · 2019Article
- Identifying high risk subgroups of MSM: a latent class analysis using two samples.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Adaptation of a Group-Based HIV RISK Reduction Intervention to a Mobile App for Young Sexual Minority Men.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2018Article
- Privacy, Trust, and Data Sharing in Web-Based and Mobile Research: Participant Perspectives in a Large Nationwide Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- Going social: Success in online recruitment of men who have sex with men for prevention HIV vaccine research.Vaccine · 2017Observational
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Abstract
Internet access has caused a global revolution in the way people of all ages and genders interact. Many have turned to the Internet to seek love, companionship, and sex, prompting researchers to move behavioral studies online. The sexual behavior of men who have sex with men (MSM) has been more closely studied than that of any other group online given the abundance of gay-oriented websites and concerns about increasing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Not only does the Internet provide a new medium for the conduct of behavioral research and for participant recruitment into an array of research studies, it has the as yet unrealized potential to reach huge numbers of MSM with innovative harm reduction and prevention messages tailored to individualized needs, interests, and risk behavior. Internet-based research on sexual behavior has many advantages in rapidity of recruitment of diverse samples which include individuals unreachable through conventional methods (i.e., non-gay identified and geographically and socially isolated MSM, etc.). Internet-based research also presents some new methodologic challenges in study design, participant recruitment, survey implementation, and interpretation of results. In addition, there are ethical issues unique to online research including difficulties in verifying informed consent, obstacles to surveying minors, and the ability to assure anonymity. This paper presents a review of Internet-based research on sexual behavior in MSM, a general discussion of the methodologic and ethical challenges of Internet-based research, and recommendations for future interdisciplinary research.
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