Perceptions of HIV-Related Comorbidities and Usability of a Virtual Environment for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Education in Sexual Minority Men With HIV: Formative Phases of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

S Raquel Ramos   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , RN, MSN, MBA, PhD ;   Harmony Reynolds   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Constance Johnson   ^{5, 6 *} , RN, MS, PhD ;   Gail Melkus   ^{7 *} , EDD, ANP ;   Trace Kershaw   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Julian F Thayer   ^{8 *} , MA, PhD ;   Allison Vorderstrasse   ^{9 *} , APRN, DNSc

¹ School of Nursing, Yale University, Orange, CT, United States

² School of Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

³ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, NY, United States

⁴ Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

⁵ Czik School of Nursing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

⁶ McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

⁷ Rory Myers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, United States

⁸ School of Social Ecology, Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States

⁹ Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States

*all authors contributed equally