Network Influences on the Sexual Risk Behaviors of Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Using Geosocial Networking Applications

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue , 2015, Pages 112-122

  Holloway, Ian W ^a   Pulsipher, Craig A ^a   Gibbs, Jeremy ^b   Barman Adhikari, Anamika ^c   Rice, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geosocial networking applications; HIV; MSM; Smartphone; STI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CONDOM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CALIFORNIA; CONDOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937635809     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: 15733254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-014-0989-3     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV surveillance report, 2011. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2013.
2. Johnson WD, Diaz RM, Flanders WD, et al. Behavioral interventions to reduce risk for sexual transmission of HIV among men who have sex with men. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008;3:CD001230. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001230.pub2.
3. Wei C, Herrick A, Raymond HF, Anglemyer A, Gerbase A, Noar SM. Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;9:CD009337. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009337.
4. Lewnard JA, Berrang-Ford L. Internet-based partner selection and risk for unprotected anal intercourse in sexual encounters among men who have sex with men: a meta-analysis of observational studies. Sex Transm Infect. 2014;90(4):290–6. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2013-051332.
5. Phillips G II, Magnus M, Kuo I, et al. Use of geosocial networking (GSN) mobile phone applications to find men for sex by men who have sex with men (MSM) in Washington, DC. AIDS Behav. 2014;18:1630–7. doi:10.1007/s10461-014-0760-9.
6. Landovitz RJ, Tseng C-H, Weissman M, et al. Epidemiology, sexual risk behavior, and HIV prevention practices of men who have sex with men using GRINDR in Los Angeles, California. J Urban Health. 2013;90(4):729–39.
7. Rice E, Holloway I, Winetrobe H, et al. Sex risk among young men who have sex with men who use Grindr, a smartphone geosocial networking application. J AIDS Clin Res. 2012;S4:005. doi:10.4172/2155-6113.S4-005.
8. Winetrobe H, Rice E, Bauermeister J, Petering R, Holloway IW. Associations of unprotected anal intercourse with Grindr-met partners among Grindr-using young men who have sex with men in Los Angeles. AIDS Care. 2014;26:1303–8. doi:10.1080/09540121.2014.911811.
9. Beymer MR, Weiss RE, Bolan RK, et al. Sex on demand: geosocial networking phone apps and risk of sexually transmitted infections among a cross-sectional sample of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles county. Sex Transm Infect. 2014;. doi:10.1136/sextrans-2013-051494.
10. Burrell ER, Pines HA, Robbie E, et al. Use of the location-based social networking application GRINDR as a recruitment tool in rectal microbicide development research. AIDS Behav. 2012;16(7):1816–20.
11. Grosskopf NA, LeVasseur MT, Glaser DB. Use of the Internet and mobile-based “apps” for sex-seeking among men who have sex with men in New York City. Am J Mens Health. 2014;8(6):510–20. doi:10.1177/1557988314527311.
12. Holloway IW, Rice E, Gibbs J, Winetrobe H, Dunlap S, Rhoades H. Acceptability of smartphone application-based HIV prevention among young men who have sex with men. AIDS Behav. 2014;18(2):285–96.
13. Lehmiller JJ, Ioerger M. Social networking smartphone applications and sexual health outcomes among men who have sex with men. PLoS One. 2014;9(1):e86603. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086603.
14. Amirkhanian YA. Social networks, sexual networks and HIV risk in men who have sex with men. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2014;11(1):81–92.
15. Kelly JA, Amirkhanian YA, Seal DW, et al. Levels and predictors of sexual HIV risk in social networks of men who have sex with men in the Midwest. AIDS Educ Prev. 2010;22(6):483–95.
16. Amirkhanian YA, Kelly JA, Kirsanova AV, et al. HIV risk behaviour patterns, predictors, and sexually transmitted disease prevalence in the social networks of young men who have sex with men in St Petersburg, Russia. Int J STD AIDS. 2006;17(1):50–6.
17. Peterson J, Rothenberg R, Kraft J, Beeker C, Trotter R. Perceived condom norms and HIV risks among social and sexual networks of young African American men who have sex with men. Health Educ Res. 2009;24(1):119–27.
18. Schneider JA, Cornwell B, Ostrow D, et al. Network mixing and network influences most linked to HIV infection and risk behavior in the HIV epidemic among black men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health. 2013;103(1):e28–36.
19. Hao C, Lau JT, Zhao X, et al. Associations between perceived characteristics of the peer social network involving significant others and risk of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in China. AIDS Behav. 2014;18(1):99–110.
20. Huang ZJ, He N, Nehl EJ, et al. Social network and other correlates of HIV testing: findings from male sex workers and other MSM in Shanghai, China. AIDS Behav. 2012;16(4):858–71.
21. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV testing among men who have sex with men: 21 cities, United States, 2008. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60(21):694–9.
22. Rendina HJ, Jimenez RH, Grov C, Ventuneac A, Parsons JT. Patterns of lifetime and recent HIV testing among men who have sex with men in New York city who use Grindr. AIDS Behav. 2014;18(1):41–9.
23. Hemmelgarn S. Grindr now STD outreach tool. In: The Bay Area Reporter. San Francisco. 2014. http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69566. Accessed June 15, 2014.
24. Young SD, Holloway I, Jaganath D, Rice E, Westmoreland D, Coates T. Online social network changes in an HIV prevention RCT for African American and Latino men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health. 2014;104(9):1707–12.
25. Hart T, Peterson JL. Community Intervention Trial for Youth Study Team. Predictors of risky sexual behavior among young African American men who have sex with men. Am J Public Health. 2004;94(7):1122–4.