SynthesisAIDS and behavior2019
The Effectiveness of Social Marketing Interventions to Improve HIV Testing Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis 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 18 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Social marketing and mass media interventions to increase sexually transmissible infections (STIs) testing among young people: social marketing and visual design component analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Prevention Interventions Using Social Marketing Methods on Behavioural Change in the General Population: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- 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
- Cutting Out Stigma: Findings From a Pilot Implementation Trial of a Barbershop-Based HIV Stigma Reduction and Health Promotion Intervention in the Southern United States.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2026Trial
- Article
- Low Awareness of HIV Status Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vietnam Despite Significant Improvements in the HIV Treatment Cascade.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Article
- Building HIV/AIDS prevention communication strategies through community-informed formative research for a biobehavioural couple-based HIV prevention intervention for Latino men who have sex with men.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Research on the barriers to accessing sexual healthcare for sexually diverse Muslim men: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Knowledge about HIV/AIDS among Women of Reproductive Age in India.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An application of social marketing for promoting HIV testing in Iran.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Using social marketing theory as a framework for understanding barriers and facilitators of human papillomavirus screening in women: A qualitative study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Article
- Qualitative inquiry into perceptions of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among people who inject drugs living with hepatitis C in Seattle, WA, USA.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Girl Champ in eSwatini: A Strategic Marketing Campaign to Promote Demand for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Among Young Women.AIDS and behavior · 2022Article
- Association between socio-economic factors and HIV self-testing knowledge amongst South African women.Southern African journal of HIV medicine · 2022Article
- Increasing integrated testing in community settings through interventions for change, including the Spring European Testing Week.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
HIV testing is central to biomedical HIV prevention, but testing among men who have sex with men remains suboptimal. We evaluated effectiveness of mass media and communication interventions to increase HIV testing and explored patterns between study type, internal validity and intervention effectiveness for the first time. Five databases were searched for articles published between 2009 and 2016 using standard MeSH terms. Eligible studies were quality appraised using standard checklists for risk of bias. Data were extracted and synthesised narratively. Nineteen studies met inclusion criteria; 11 were cross-sectional/non-comparative studies, four were pre/post or interrupted time series, three were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and one was a case study. Risk of bias was high. Five cross-sectional (two graded as high internal validity, one medium and two low) and one RCT (medium validity) reported increased HIV testing. Further work is required to develop and evaluate interventions to increase frequency and maintenance of HIV testing.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.