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SynthesisAIDS and behavior2019

A Systematic Review of eHealth Interventions Addressing HIV/STI Prevention Among Men Who Have Sex With Men.

Long Hoang Nguyen, Bach Xuan Tran, Luis E C Rocha, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Cui Yang, Carl A Latkin, Anna Thorson, Susanne Strömdahl

Abstract readSystematic Review
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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 60 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Long Hoang NguyenDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. hoang.nguyen@ki.se.
Bach Xuan TranDepartment of Health Economics, Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Luis E C RochaCentre for Business Network Analysis, Business School, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Huong Lan Thi NguyenInstitute for Global Health Innovations, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam.
Cui YangDepartment of Health, Behaviours and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Carl A LatkinDepartment of Health, Behaviours and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Anna ThorsonDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Susanne StrömdahlDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Funding

Health disparities, stress pathways, and stress-related comorbidities among MSM living with HIVR01MD013495 · NIMHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LATKIN, CARL A, YANG, CUI · 2018 to 2022
$3.8M
Using Open Contest and Neuro-Influence Experiment to Develop and Evaluate PrEP Promotion Messages for High Risk MenR34MH116725 · NIMH · RBHS-SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI YANG, CUI · 2018 to 2020
$696k
Preparing to Implement PrEP Among High-Risk Men in ChinaR21MH118945 · NIMH · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI YANG, CUI, ZALLER, NICKOLAS D · 2019 to 2020
$453k
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD013495NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH118945NIMH NIH HHS R34 MH116725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A systematic review was conducted to summarize and appraise the eHealth interventions addressing HIV/STI prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM), and characterize features of successful eHealth interventions. Fifty-five articles (17 pilots and 38 full efficacy trials) were included with the predominance of web-based interventions in the United States-based settings. Intervention modalities include web-based, short message service (SMS)/text messges/email reminder, online video-based, computer-assisted, multimedia-based, social network, live chat and chat room, virtual simulation intervention, and smartphone applications. Forty-nine eHealth interventions achieved a short-term behaviour change among participants. Four studies were conducted with 12-month follow-ups; and only one of them could maintain the behaviour change over this longer time period which could be due to the lack of booster interventions. Our study suggests that eHealth interventions can achieve short term behaviour change among MSM, however limited interventions could maintain behaviour change over 12 months. Further eHealth intervention strategies to promote HIV prevention among MSM should be conducted and rigorously evaluated.

Indexed as

Homosexuality, MaleTelemedicineAdultHealth PromotionHIV InfectionsHumansMaleRisk Reduction BehaviorSexually Transmitted DiseasesText MessagingeHealthHIVInterventionMSMSTISystematic review

Identifiers

PMID31401741
PMCPMC6766471

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