Online Social Networking for HIV Prevention

预防艾滋病毒的在线社交网络

• 批准号: 7647453
• 负责人: SHEANA S BULL
• 金额: $ 28.51万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7647453
• 关键词: Abstinence; Adolescent; Adult; Age; Behavioral; Data; Development; Drama; Education; Educational process of instructing; Face; Focus Groups; HIV; Heterosexuals; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Infection; Injecting drug user; Internet; Intervention; Location; Participant; Pathway Analysis; Persons; Prevention; Prevention approach; Preventive Intervention; Randomized; Reporting; Reproductive Health; Risk; Schools; Sexual Partners; Sexuality; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Site; Social Network; Students; System; Technology; Time; Virus Diseases; Youth; aged; base; community setting; condoms; control trial; design; efficacy testing; high school; men who have sex with men; peer; programs; public education; sex; sexually active; social networking website; teacher; therapy design; web site; web-based social networking; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While there have been some effective HIV prevention interventions developed with young adults, the majority of programs with efficacy for HIV prevention have been developed for adult men who have sex with men (MSM), injection drug users (IDU) and adult heterosexuals. We currently lack (a) culturally appropriate interventions designed specifically for youth, including youth at elevated risk for HIV; and (b) interventions that can effectively reach youth outside our traditional educational system. In this proposal, we endeavor to develop and evaluate an Internet-based social networking program for young adults embedded on MySpace.com, the largest social networking site on the Internet. Youth with participate in every aspect of the design and development of My_Network for Health_Space, resulting in a highly interactive website with culturally appropriate and effective HIV prevention messages that simultaneously take advantage of the youth-oriented culture of technology while capitalizing on the enormous reach of the Internet. We will achieve the following specific aims in this project: 1. Conduct focus groups online at MySpace.com to inform the development of culturally relevant and appropriate social networking pages to promote dialogue about HIV Prevention among youth. 2. Use data from the focus groups to develop My_Network for Health_Space, a site that will be incorporated into the largest online social networking site, MySpace.com. Features of My_Network for Health_Space will likely include (a) peer-to-peer HIV related educational interactive chat rooms, forums, blogs, and testimonial components and (b) an animated weekly serial drama with multiple characters identifying and resolving challenges to HIV prevention over time. 3. Conduct a preliminary social network analysis of youth on MySpace to identify clusters of discrete and dense networks in geographically diverse locations across the U.S. 4. Randomize discrete networks to a trial examining the efficacy of My_Network for Health_Space for maintaining abstinence, increasing condom use, and increasing testing for HIV among participants.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然已经针对年轻人制定了一些有效的艾滋病毒预防干预措施，但大多数有效的艾滋病毒预防方案是针对男男性行为者（MSM）、注射吸毒者（IDU）的成年男性制定的。 ）和成年异性恋者。 我们目前缺乏 (a) 专门为青年人（包括感染艾滋病毒风险较高的青年人）设计的文化上适当的干预措施； (b) 能够有效影响传统教育体系之外的青年的干预措施。 在本提案中，我们致力于为年轻人开发和评估嵌入在互联网上最大的社交网站 MySpace.com 上的基于互联网的社交网络程序。 青年人参与 My_Network for Health_Space 设计和开发的各个方面，从而形成一个高度互动的网站，提供文化上适当且有效的艾滋病毒预防信息，同时利用以青年为导向的技术文化，同时利用广泛的影响力互联网。 我们将在这个项目中实现以下具体目标： 1. 在 MySpace.com 上在线开展焦点小组讨论，为开发具有文化相关性和适当的社交网络页面提供信息，以促进青年人之间关于艾滋病毒预防的对话。 2. 使用焦点小组的数据开发 My_Network for Health_Space，该网站将并入最大的在线社交网站 MySpace.com。 My_Network for Health_Space 的功能可能包括 (a) 与 HIV 相关的点对点教育互动聊天室、论坛、博客和感言组件，以及 (b) 每周播放的动画连续剧，由多个角色识别和解决 HIV 预防方面的挑战。时间。 3. 对 MySpace 上的年轻人进行初步社交网络分析，以确定美国各地不同地理位置的离散和密集网络集群。 4. 将离散网络随机分配到一项试验中，检查 My_Network for Health_Space 在参与者中保持禁欲、增加安全套使用和增加 HIV 检测的功效。