ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2019
Psychological threat avoidance as a barrier to HIV testing in gay/bisexual men.
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- Prevalence and predictors of medical information avoidance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Delivering HIV-Positive Test Results via Phone: Who Never Answered? Correlates of Undelivered Reactive HIV Results in a U.S. National Cohort of Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- The HIV Anxiety Scale (HAS): Developing and Validating a Measure of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Anxiety.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Determinants of HIV late presentation among men who have sex with men in Portugal (2014-2019): who's being left behind?Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- HIV Information Avoidance, HIV Stigma, and Medical Mistrust among Black Sexual Minority Men in the Southern United States: Associations with HIV Testing.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Modeling the Effect of HIV/AIDS Stigma on HIV Infection Dynamics in Kenya.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2021Article
- Factors associated with past HIV testing among men who have sex with men attending university in China: a cross-sectional study.Sexual health · 2021Article
- Elevated Perceived Risk for HIV as a Barrier to Accessing Health Care Among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Article
- Behavioral and social science research to support accelerated and equitable implementation of long-acting preexposure prophylaxis.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2020Review
- The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on the HIV-Related Stigma of People Living With HIV in Turkey.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
The present study examined how three psychosocial barriers-anticipated HIV stigma, HIV infectiousness-reduction beliefs, and optimism about available HIV treatments-related to HIV testing history and acceptance of an at-home HIV test among men who have sex with men. We also examined the mediating role of a variable that affects medical screening for other health conditions but has not yet been investigated in HIV contexts: the tendency to avoid psychologically threatening information. Volunteers completed a paper and pencil survey and were offered a free at-home HIV test during the 2015 Atlanta Pride Festival in Atlanta, GA. Anticipated HIV stigma, infectiousness beliefs, and treatment optimism were inconsistently related to HIV testing history and acceptance of an at-home HIV test, but all had direct effects on the desire to avoid HIV information. In a mediation model, each of these psychosocial barriers had indirect effects on both HIV testing outcomes via information avoidance. These findings suggest that information avoidance is an important proximal HIV testing barrier, thus providing a novel target for interventions and information campaigns.
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