Trial reportSocial science & medicine (1982)2012
Candidate change agent identification among men at risk for HIV infection.
Trial report in Social science & medicine (1982), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Use of social network analysis in the development, dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of health behavior interventions for adults: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Pooled it
- Project nGage: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dyadic Network Support Intervention to Retain Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men in HIV Care.AIDS and behavior · 2017Trial
- "It's Whack, It's Not Gonna Work": Feasibility of Sociocentric Network Recruitment for Interventions Among Black, Latine, and Caribbean Priority Populations in New York City.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2025Article
- Health, harm reduction, and social service providers' perspectives on the appropriateness and feasibility of peer distribution of HIV self-test kits among people who use drugs.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Extent and implications of omitted ties on network measures in a longitudinal social network survey of people who use drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Using Social Networks to Understand and Overcome Implementation Barriers in the Global HIV Response.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Review
- The social network context of HIV stigma: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
- Facebook network structure and awareness of preexposure prophylaxis among young men who have sex with men.Annals of epidemiology · 2017Article
- A new HIV prevention network approach: sociometric peer change agent selection.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015Article
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- Dynamic social support networks of younger black men who have sex with men with new HIV infection.AIDS care · 2014Article
- Project nGage: Network Supported HIV Care Engagement for Younger Black Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Persons.Journal of AIDS & clinical research · 2013Article
- Social network and risk-taking behavior most associated with rapid HIV testing, circumcision, and preexposure prophylaxis acceptability among high-risk Indian men.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2012Article
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Abstract
Despite limited HIV prevention potency, peer-based programs have become one of the most often used HIV prevention approaches internationally. These programs demonstrate a need for greater specificity in peer change agent (PCA) recruitment and social network evaluation. In the present three-phase study based in India (2009-2010), we first explored the nature of friendship among truck-drivers, a group of men at high risk for HIV infection, in order to develop a thorough understanding of the social forces that contribute to and maintain their personal networks. This was accomplished in the first two study phases through a combination of focus group discussions (n = 5 groups), in-depth qualitative interviews (n = 20), and personal network analyses (n = 25) of truck-drivers to define friendship and deepen our understanding of friendship across geographic spaces. Measures collected in phases I and II included friend typologies, discussion topics, social network influences, advice-giving, and risk reduction. Outcomes were assessed through an iterative process of qualitative textual analysis and social network analysis. The networks of truck-drivers were found to comprise three typologies: close friends, parking lot friends, and other friends. From these data, we developed an algorithmic approach to the identification of a candidate PCA within a high-risk man's personal network. In phase III we piloted field-use of this approach to identify and recruit PCAs, and further evaluated their potential for intervention through preliminary analysis of the PCA's own personal networks. An instrument was developed to translate what social network theory and analysis has taught us about egocentric network dynamics into a real-world methodology for identifying intervention-appropriate peers within an individual's personal network. Our approach can be tailored to the specifications of any high-risk population, and may serve to enhance current peer-based HIV interventions.
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