Trial reportPloS one2012
An online randomized controlled trial evaluating HIV prevention digital media interventions for men who have sex with men.
Trial report in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 55 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Phase 1 Online Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Effectiveness of a Web-based Intervention to Promote Health Screening in Men: A Community-based Randomised Controlled Trial
Who cites it
55 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Implementation Research on Determinants and Strategies of Effective HIV Interventions for Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States.Annual review of psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Demand creation for HIV testing services: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Mass media and communication interventions to increase HIV testing among gay and other men who have sex with men: Social marketing and visual design component analysis.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2022Pooled it
- A qualitative examination of affect and ideology within mass media interventions to increase HIV testing with gay men garnered from a systematic review.British journal of health psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Using Digital Communication Technology to Increase HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Electronic Health Interventions for Promoting HIV-Preventive Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Meta-Analysis Based on an Integrative Framework of Design and Implementation Features.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of eHealth Interventions Addressing HIV/STI Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex With Men.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- Behavioral interventions promoting HIV serostatus disclosure to sex partners among HIV-positive men who have sex with men: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2019Pooled it
- What are mass media interventions made of? Exploring the active content of interventions designed to increase HIV testing in gay men within a systematic review.British journal of health psychology · 2019Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Social Marketing Interventions to Improve HIV Testing Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2019Pooled it
- Online interventions to address HIV and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections among young gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: a systematic review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Pooled it
- Single-Session Behavioral Interventions for Sexual Risk Reduction: A Meta-Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions promoting HIV serostatus disclosure to sexual partners: a systematic review.AIDS and behavior · 2015Pooled it
- eHealth interventions for HIV prevention in high-risk men who have sex with men: a systematic review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Pooled it
- Social Media Intervention Based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model Promotes HIV Testing and Reduces High-Risk Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Resource-Limited Settings in China: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Uptake and Acceptability of MyChoices: Results of a Pilot RCT of a Mobile App Designed to Increase HIV Testing and PrEP Uptake Among Young American MSM.AIDS and behavior · 2022Trial
- A Pilot Study of a Mobile App to Support HIV Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Use Stimulants.AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- Evaluation of HIV Disclosure Behavior Following a Randomized Controlled Disclosure Intervention for Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV.Archives of sexual behavior · 2018Trial
- Generalisability of an online randomised controlled trial: an empirical analysis.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2018Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial of an Internet Application to Reduce HIV Transmission Behavior Among HIV Infected Men Who have Sex with Men.AIDS and behavior · 2016Trial
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundAs HIV infection continues unabated, there is a need for effective interventions targeting at-risk men who have sex with men (MSM). Engaging MSM online where they meet sexual partners is critical for HIV prevention efforts.
methodsA randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted online among U.S. MSM recruited from several gay sexual networking websites assessed the impact of 2 HIV prevention videos and an HIV prevention webpage compared to a control condition for the study outcomes HIV testing, serostatus disclosure, and unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) at 60-day follow-up. Video conditions were pooled due to reduced power from low retention (53%, n = 1,631). No participant incentives were provided. PRINCIPAL
findingsFollow-up was completed by 1,631 (53%) of 3,092 eligible men. In the 60 days after the intervention, men in the pooled video condition were significantly more likely than men in the control to report full serostatus disclosure ('asked and told') with their last sexual partner (OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.01-1.74). Comparing baseline to follow-up, HIV-negative men in the pooled video (OR 0.70, 95% CI 0.54-0.91) and webpage condition (OR 0.43, 95% CI 0.25-0.72) significantly reduced UAI at follow-up. HIV-positive men in the pooled video condition significantly reduced UAI (OR 0.38, 95% CI 0.20-0.67) and serodiscordant UAI (OR 0.53, 95% CI 0.28-0.96) at follow-up. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Findings from this online RCT of MSM recruited from sexual networking websites suggest that a low cost, brief digital media intervention designed to engage critical thinking can increase HIV disclosure to sexual partners and decrease sexual risk. Effective, brief HIV prevention interventions featuring digital media that are made widely available may serve as a complementary part of an overall behavioral and biomedical strategy for reducing sexual risk by addressing the specific needs and circumstances of the target population, and by changing individual knowledge, motivations, and community norms.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT00649701.
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