Trial reportAIDS and behavior2019
A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial of Game Plan, A Web Application to Help Men Who Have Sex with Men Reduce Their HIV Risk and Alcohol Use.
Trial report in AIDS and behavior, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Use of Behavior Change Techniques in Digital HIV Prevention Programs for Adolescents and Young People: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying Best Practices for Increasing HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use and Persistence in the United States: A Systematic Review.AIDS and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Use and HIV Risk among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations: a Systematic Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2023Pooled it
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- Sexual behaviour change following HIV testing services: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Combination Behavioral Interventions Co-Targeting Psychosocial Syndemics and HIV-Related Health Behaviors for Sexual Minority Men.Journal of sex 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
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Game Plan for PrEP: A Brief, Web and Text Message Intervention to Help Sexual Minority Men Adhere to PrEP and Reduce Their Alcohol Use.AIDS and behavior · 2024Trial
- Self-collected dried blood spots for phosphatidylethanol assessment in virtual trials: Feasibility and concordance with self-reported alcohol use among men at high HIV risk.Research square · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Not Seeking Post-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Among PrEP-Naive Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Analysis from the French ANRS-PREVENIR Study.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- The Success of Serious Games and Gamified Systems in HIV Prevention and Care: Scoping Review.JMIR serious games · 2023Article
- A scoping review of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use treatment interventions for sexual and gender minority populations.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Game Plan-a Brief Web-Based Intervention to Improve Uptake and Use of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and Reduce Alcohol Use Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Content Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- How Alcohol Influences Mechanisms of Sexual Risk Behavior Change: Contributions of Alcohol Challenge Research to the Development of HIV Prevention Interventions.AIDS and behavior · 2021Review
- Game Plan, a Web-Based Intervention to Improve Adherence and Persistence to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and Reduce Heavy Drinking in Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men: Usability and User Experience Testing.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Current Interventions for People Living with HIV Who Use Alcohol: Why Gender Matters.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2021Review
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Alcohol use is a key risk factor for HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). Past studies show that brief motivational interventions (BMI) can increase the use of prevention methods (e.g., condoms), reduce alcohol use, and can be adapted for web-based delivery. However, few studies have explored these interventions' effects in MSM. Forty high-risk, heavy drinking MSM who sought rapid HIV testing were randomly assigned to receive either (1) standard post-test counseling (SPC) alone, or (2) SPC plus Game Plan (GP), a tablet tablet-based BMI for alcohol use and HIV risk. Over three months of follow-up, GP participants reported 24% fewer heavy drinking days, 17% fewer alcohol problems, and 50% fewer new anal sex partners than controls. GP participants also reported fewer high-risk condomless anal sex events than controls, but these differences were not significant. These initial results suggest that web-based BMIs may be promising tools to help MSM reduce health risk behaviors.
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