Improving Survey Procedures for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men in Web-based HIV Prevention: Retention Study



Status:Completed
Conditions:Healthy Studies
Therapuetic Areas:Other
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 34
Updated:4/21/2016
Start Date:April 2015
End Date:July 2015

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The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of alternative methods to improve survey
completion.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are the risk population most heavily impacted by HIV in the
United States by any measure; in 2009, at least 61% of new HIV infections were estimated to
have occurred in MSM. MSM are experiencing an increase in HIV transmission that has been
occurring since at least 1990, and accelerated in multiple North American and European
countries from 2000-2005. The expansion of the HIV epidemic has been proposed to be
attributable, in part, to the extent to which the internet has facilitated sexual
connectivity among MSM.

Researchers have attempted to reach MSM for HIV prevention research and intervention on the
internet. In the past 10 years, there has been a proliferation of internet surveys and HIV
research studies among men who have sex with men that utilize the internet for data
collection and, in some cases, the delivery of HIV prevention content. The development of
internet-based interventions has been recently identified as especially promising because of
its potential for scalability. However, there are also important limitations to
internet-based data collections and prevention studies. The most important of these relate
to representativeness and opportunities to introduce bias to data collections and
differences in access to and use of internet among different subgroups of MSM. Equally
important, although less discussed, are the unique ethical and human research protections
challenges posed by online sexual health prevention studies.

The investigators will conduct an experiment to improve knowledge of how to conduct
internet-based HIV prevention research with MSM in ways that decrease biases in data
collections. The design will consist of a randomized controlled trials of MSM recruited
online. A total of 1000 MSM will be enrolled to determine how to best improve retention in
online surveys.

Inclusion Criteria:

- male

- aged 18 to 34 years

- have had sex with another man in the past 12 months

Exclusion Criteria:

- female or transgender

- younger than 18 years of age

- older than 34 years of age

- have not had sex with another man in the past 12 months.
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