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ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2021

Changes in Sexual Behavior Related to the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Women in New Orleans, LA.

Megan Clare Craig-Kuhn, Norine Schmidt, Glenis Scott, Gérard Gomes, Mom TatahMentan, Ososese Enaholo, Stephanie Guzman, Ayzsa Tannis, Jacob Hall, Daniel R Triggs and 1 more

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Article in Sexually transmitted diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Understanding Perceived Risks and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023
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  8. Potential Effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transmission: A Modeling Study in 32 US Cities.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Megan Clare Craig-KuhnFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Norine SchmidtFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Glenis ScottFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Gérard GomesFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Mom TatahMentanEnvironmental Health Sciences Department.
Ososese EnaholoFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Stephanie GuzmanFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Ayzsa TannisFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Jacob HallFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Daniel R TriggsHealth Policy and Management Department, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA.
Patricia J KissingerFrom the Epidemiology Department.
Environmental Health · GBTulane University · US

Funding

Trichomonas vaginalis repeat infections among HIV negative womenR01AI097080 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KISSINGER, PATRICIA J · 2012 to 2016
$3.7M
A new approach to controlling chlamydia transmission in young peopleR01HD086794 · NICHD · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KISSINGER, PATRICIA J · 2016 to 2020
$2.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI097080NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD086794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCOVID-19 stay-at-home orders enacted in New Orleans, LA on March 16, 2020, may have caused changes in the way young men interacted with sex partners.

methodsAn online substudy was conducted (May 21, 2020 to June 9, 2020) among Black men who have sex with women, 18 years and older, and who had previously enrolled in the parent study Check It (May 17, 2017 to March 6, 2020) to assess changes in sexual behavior during the stay-at-home orders.

resultsAmong 111 participants, from enrollment in Check It to during stay-at-home orders, recent vaginal sex declined from 96.4% to 47.8% (P < 0.0001), reports of multiple female sex partners declined from 45.0% to 14.4% (P < 0.0001), and sexual abstinence increased from 3.6% to 38.7% (P < 0.0001). Among those who did have vaginal sex, condomless sex rates did not change between enrollment in Check It and the substudy (64.5% vs 67.9%, P = 0.68). During stay-at-home orders oral sex, virtual sex, and pornography viewing were 40.5%, 42.3%, and 76.6%, respectively. Some (17.1%) acquired a new sex partner during stay-at-home orders, and 44.1% left their home to meet a partner for sex. Only 27.9% had seen information about safe sex during the pandemic. Income was diminished for 62.2% and 23.4% moved away from New Orleans when stay-at-home orders were enacted.

conclusionsAlthough there was an overall reduction in physical sex, half of participants reported physical sex, with many leaving their home to have sex during stay-at-home orders and many not using condoms. Others adopted sexual abstinence, increased virtual sex, and/or pornography viewing, which may have protected them from both sexually transmitted infections and COVID-19.

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COVID-19HIV InfectionsBlack or African AmericanCondomsFemaleHumansMaleNew OrleansSARS-CoV-2Sexual BehaviorSexual Partners

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