Social media engagement and HIV testing among men who have sex with men in China: A nationwide cross-sectional survey

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Cao, Bolin ^a,b   Liu, Chuncheng ^b   Durvasula, Maya ^c   Tang, Weiming ^b,d   Pan, Stephen ^b   Saffer, Adam J ^d   Wei, Chongyi ^e   Tucker, Joseph D ^b,d  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT CHINA   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; HIV; Homosexuality; Male; Mobile application; Social Media

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85026441420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7251     Document Type: Article

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