HIV behavioral research online

被引:100
作者
Chiasson, MA
Parsons, JT
Tesoriero, JM
Carballo-Dieguez, A
Hirshfield, S
Remien, RH
机构
[1] Med & Hlth Res Assoc NYC Inc, Res & Evaluat, New York, NY 10013 USA
[2] Columbia Univ, New York, NY USA
[3] New York State Psychiat Inst & Hosp, HIV Ctr Clin & Behav Studies, New York, NY 10032 USA
[4] New York State Dept Hlth, AIDS Inst, Off Program Evaluat & Res, Albany, NY 12237 USA
[5] CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY USA
[6] CUNY Hunter Coll, Ctr HIV AIDS Educ Studies & Training, New York, NY 10021 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE | 2006年 / 83卷 / 01期
关键词
HIV transmission; Gay men; Internet; ethics;
D O I
10.1007/s11524-005-9008-3
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Internet access has caused a global revolution in the way people of all ages and genders interact. Many have turned to the Internet to seek love, companionship, and sex, prompting researchers to move behavioral studies online. The sexual behavior of men who have sex with men (MSM) has been more closely studied than that of any other group online given the abundance of gay-oriented websites and concerns about increasing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Not only does the Internet provide a new medium for the conduct of behavioral research and for participant recruitment into an array of research studies, it has the as yet unrealized potential to reach huge numbers of MSM with innovative harm reduction and prevention messages tailored to individualized needs, interests, and risk behavior. Internet-based research on sexual behavior has many advantages in rapidity of recruitment of diverse samples which include individuals unreachable through conventional methods (i.e., non-gay identified and geographically and socially isolated MSM, etc.). Internet-based research also presents some new methodologic challenges in study design, participant recruitment, survey implementation, and interpretation of results. In addition, there are ethical issues tun. que to online research including difficulties in verifying informed consent, obstacles to surveying minors, and the ability to assure anonymity. This paper presents a review of Internet-based research on sexual behavior in MSM, a general discussion of the methodologic and ethical challenges of Internet-based research, and recommendations for future interdisciplinary research.
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