ArticleAIDS and behavior2011
Online social networking technologies, HIV knowledge, and sexual risk and testing behaviors among homeless youth.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Use of Facebook in Recruiting Participants for Health Research Purposes: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Use of Technology to Address Substance Use in the Context of HIV: A Systematic Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Pooled it
- The use of social networking sites for public health practice and research: a systematic review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Pooled it
- Opportunities for engaging low-income, vulnerable populations in health care: a systematic review of homeless persons' access to and use of information technologies.American journal of public health · 2013Pooled it
- A new dimension of health care: systematic review of the uses, benefits, and limitations of social media for health communication.Journal of medical Internet research · 2013Pooled it
- Recent advances (2011-2012) in technology-delivered interventions for people living with HIV.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2012Pooled it
- Smartphone application plus brief motivational intervention reduces substance use and sexual risk behaviors among homeless young adults: Results from a randomized controlled trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- Disparities in HIV Testing Among Spanish and English-Speaking Hispanic/Latino Men who have Sex with Men and Social Media Use.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Adapting and Scaling-up Peer Navigators to Targeted Populations of Street-Involved Youth in Kenya and Canada to Increase Engagement in HIV Prevention, Testing, and Treatment.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
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- Social media use, knowledge, attitudes, and risky sexual behavior of HIV transmission: A survey among boarding school adolescent students in Indonesia.Belitung nursing journal · 2024Article
- HIV-Related Knowledge and Sexual Behaviors among Teenagers: Implications for Public Health Interventions.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Heterogeneous Impact of Social Integration on the Health of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Open Communication About Reproductive Health Is Associated With Comprehensive HIV Knowledge and a Non-stigmatising Attitude Among Indonesian Youth: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2022Article
- The Effects of Internet Exposure on Sexual Risk Behavior Among Sexually Experienced Male College Students in China: Cross-sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
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- A Scoping Review on Access and Use of Technology in Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Implications for Healthcare.Frontiers in digital health · 2021Article
- Ending the HIV epidemic using National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS): Recommendations based on DC model.PloS one · 2021Article
- Increasing HIV/AIDS knowledge among urban ethnic minority youth: Findings from a community-based prevention intervention program.Journal of HIV/AIDS & social services · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study evaluates associations between online social networking and sexual health behaviors among homeless youth in Los Angeles. We analyzed survey data from 201 homeless youth accessing services at a Los Angeles agency. Multivariate (regression and logistic) models assessed whether use of (and topics discussed on) online social networking technologies affect HIV knowledge, sexual risk behaviors, and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). One set of results suggests that using online social networks for partner seeking (compared to not using the networks for seeking partners) is associated with increased sexual risk behaviors. Supporting data suggest that (1) using online social networks to talk about safe sex is associated with an increased likelihood of having met a recent sex partner online, and (2) having online sex partners and talking to friends on online social networks about drugs and partying is associated with increased exchange sex. However, results also suggest that online social network usage is associated with increased knowledge and HIV/STI prevention among homeless youth: (1) using online social networks to talk about love and safe sex is associated with increased knowledge about HIV, (2) using the networks to talk about love is associated with decreased exchange sex, and (3) merely being a member of an online social network is associated with increased likelihood of having previously tested for STIs. Taken together, this study suggests that online social networking and the topics discussed on these networks can potentially increase and decrease sexual risk behaviors depending on how the networks are used. Developing sexual health services and interventions on online social networks could reduce sexual risk behaviors.
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