Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2012
Social media-delivered sexual health intervention: a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04206514 (Strengthening Patient-Centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality of Care for Post Abortion Care Through Peer and Nurse Based Phone Support), which is not on this map. Cited by 169 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Strengthening Patient-Centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality of Care for Post Abortion Care Through Peer and Nurse Based Phone Support
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169 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Behavioural interventions delivered through interactive social media for health behaviour change, health outcomes, and health equity in the adult population.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic Review on Information Technology Approaches to Evaluate the Impact of Public Health Campaigns: Real Cases and Possible Directions.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Behavior Change Techniques Included in Reports of Social Media Interventions for Promoting Health Behaviors in Adults: Content Analysis Within a Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Peer-Reviewed Literature on Global Condom Promotion Programs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions using social networking sites to promote contraception in women of reproductive age.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Technology-Based Interventions to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections and Unintended Pregnancy Among Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Social Media and HIV: A Systematic Review of Uses of Social Media in HIV Communication.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
- Community Education for Family Planning in the U.S.: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Pooled it
- A systematic review of recent smartphone, Internet and Web 2.0 interventions to address the HIV continuum of care.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2015Pooled it
- "Friending" teens: systematic review of social media in adolescent and young adult health care.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Pooled it
- The influence of social networking sites on health behavior change: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2015Pooled it
- The use of social networking sites for public health practice and research: a systematic review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Pooled it
- Get Health'e': A Pilot Test of a Digital Health Literacy Intervention for Young Adults.Health literacy research and practice · 2024Trial
- A social media intervention for high-intensity drinking among emerging adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2024Trial
- Using social media to recruit individuals for health-related research: Feasibility and lessons learned.Journal of health psychology · 2023Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of social media interventions for risky drinking among adolescents and emerging adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- A social media intervention for cannabis use among emerging adults: Randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- The MOSEXY trial: mobile phone intervention for sexual health in youth-a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effect of a smartphone application on sexual health in youth in Stockholm, Sweden.Sexually transmitted infections · 2021Trial
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Abstract
backgroundYouth are using social media regularly and represent a group facing substantial risk for sexually transmitted infection (STI). Although there is evidence that the Internet can be used effectively in supporting healthy sexual behavior, this has not yet extended to social networking sites. PURPOSE: To determine whether STI prevention messages delivered via Facebook are efficacious in preventing increases in sexual risk behavior at 2 and 6 months.
designCluster RCT, October 2010-May 2011. SETTING/
participantsIndividuals (seeds) recruited in multiple settings (online, via newspaper ads and face-to-face) were asked to recruit three friends, who in turn recruited additional friends, extending three waves from the seed. Seeds and waves of friends were considered networks and exposed to either the intervention or control condition.
interventionExposure to Just/Us, a Facebook page developed with youth input, or to control content on 18-24 News, a Facebook page with current events for 2 months.
main outcome measuresCondom use at last sex and proportion of sex acts protected by condoms. Repeated measures of nested data were used to model main effects of exposure to Just/Us and time by treatment interaction.
resultsA total of 1578 participants enrolled, with 14% Latino and 35% African-American; 75% of participants completed at least one study follow-up. Time by treatment effects were observed at 2 months for condom use (intervention 68% vs control 56%, p=0.04) and proportion of sex acts protected by condoms (intervention 63% vs control 57%, p=0.03) where intervention participation reduced the tendency for condom use to decrease over time. No effects were seen at 6 months.
conclusionsSocial networking sites may be venues for efficacious health education interventions. More work is needed to understand what elements of social media are compelling, how network membership influences effects, and whether linking social media to clinical and social services can be beneficial.
trial registrationThis study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.govNCT00725959.
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