TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schnall, Rebecca
AU  - Travers, Jasmine
AU  - Rojas, Marlene
AU  - Carballo-Diéguez, Alex
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/05/26
TI  - eHealth Interventions for HIV Prevention in High-Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men: A Systematic Review
JO  - J Med Internet Res
SP  - e134
VL  - 16
IS  - 5
KW  - HIV prevention
KW  - eHealth
KW  - high-risk MSM
KW  - HIV testing
KW  - HIV risk behaviors
KW  - SMS
KW  - Internet
AB  - Background: While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rate has remained steady in most groups, the overall incidence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been steadily increasing in the United States. eHealth is a platform for health behavior change interventions and provides new opportunities for the delivery of HIV prevention messages. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the use of eHealth interventions for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, OVID, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and Google for articles and grey literature reporting the original results of any studies related to HIV prevention in MSM and developed a standard data collection form to extract information on study characteristics and outcome data. Results: In total, 13 articles met the inclusion criteria, of which five articles targeted HIV testing behaviors and eight focused on decreasing HIV risk behaviors. Interventions included Web-based education modules, text messaging (SMS, short message service), chat rooms, and social networking. The methodological quality of articles ranged from 49.4-94.6%. Wide variation in the interventions meant synthesis of the results using meta-analysis would not be appropriate. Conclusions: This review shows evidence that eHealth for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM has the potential to be effective in the short term for reducing HIV risk behaviors and increasing testing rates. Given that many of these studies were short term and had other limitations, but showed strong preliminary evidence of improving outcomes, additional work needs to rigorously assess the use of eHealth strategies for HIV prevention in high-risk MSM. 
SN  - 1438-8871
UR  - http://www.jmir.org/2014/5/e134/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3393
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24862459
DO  - 10.2196/jmir.3393
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/jmir.3393
ER  -