ArticleAIDS and behavior2015
The use of mystery shopping for quality assurance evaluations of HIV/STI testing sites offering services to young gay and bisexual men.
Article in AIDS and behavior, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03132415 (Get Connected), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Get Connected: Linking YMSM to Adequate Care Through a Multilevel, Tailored WebApp Intervention
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Testing the Testers: Are Young Men Who Have Sex With Men Receiving Adequate HIV Testing and Counseling Services?Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Pooled it
- Enhancing routine HIV and STI testing among young men who have sex with men: primary outcomes of the get connected clinical randomized trial (ATN 139).BMC public health · 2024Trial
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- The Young Adult Centered Healthforce Training (YACHT) Program to Increase HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Referrals Among Young Sexual Minority Men in Florida: Protocol for a Type 2 Implementation-Effectiveness Hybrid Trial With a Stepped Wedge Design.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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- Building an HIV Learning Health Care Community for Youth in Florida: Opportunities and Challenges.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Mapping LGBTQ+ Youth Resource Density Across Four High HIV Prevalence Corridors in the US.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2023Article
- Constructing a web-based health directory for adolescent men who have sex with men: Strategies for development and resource verification.Journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- The Health Access Initiative: A Training and Technical Assistance Program to Improve Health Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
- Stigma, Gender Affirmation, and Primary Healthcare Use Among Black Transgender Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019Article
- Finding sexual health aids after cancer: are cancer centers supporting survivors' needs?Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2019Article
- Health Insurance Coverage of Recommended Gender-Affirming Health Care Services for Transgender Youth: Shopping Online for Coverage Information.Transgender health · 2019Article
- University of North Carolina/Emory Center for Innovative Technology (iTech) for Addressing the HIV Epidemic Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Protocol and Rationale for Center Development.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- A Multilevel Tailored Web App-Based Intervention for Linking Young Men Who Have Sex With Men to Quality Care (Get Connected): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Reducing HIV Vulnerability Through a Multilevel Life Skills Intervention for Adolescent Men (The iREACH Project): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Receipt Among Young Males Aged 15-24.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- It Works, But For Whom? Examining Racial Bias in Carding Experiences and Acceptance of a County Identification Card.Health equity · 2018Article
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- Ensuring Community Participation During Program Planning: Lessons Learned During the Development of a HIV/STI Program for Young Sexual and Gender Minorities.American journal of community psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are at increased risk for HIV and STI infection. While encouraging HIV and STI testing among YMSM remains a public health priority, we know little about the cultural competency of providers offering HIV/STI tests to YMSM in public clinics. As part of a larger intervention study, we employed a mystery shopper methodology to evaluate the LGBT cultural competency and quality of services offered in HIV and STI testing sites in Southeast Michigan (n = 43).We trained and deployed mystery shoppers (n = 5) to evaluate the HIV and STI testing sites by undergoing routine HIV/STI testing. Two shoppers visited each site, recording their experiences using a checklist that assessed 13 domains, including the clinic's structural characteristics and interactions with testing providers. We used the site scores to examine the checklist's psychometric properties and tested whether site evaluations differed between sites only offering HIV testing (n = 14) versus those offering comprehensive HIV/STI testing (n = 29). On average, site scores were positive across domains. In bivariate comparisons by type of testing site, HIV testing sites were more likely than comprehensive HIV/STI testing clinics to ascertain experiences of intimate partner violence, offer action steps to achieve safer sex goals, and provide safer sex education. The developed checklist may be used as a quality assurance indicator to measure HIV/STI testing sites' performance when working with YMSM. Our findings also underscore the need to bolster providers' provision of safer sex education and behavioral counseling within comprehensive HIV/STI testing sites.
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