Cargando…
Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China
In China, HIV testing is the important first step of HIV prevention and treatment cascades but is not widely adopted by men who have sex with men (MSM). However, social media has been increasingly used to promote and improve HIV testing. This study aimed to assess the impact of social media use on H...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37047997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075383 |
_version_ | 1785023718937853952 |
---|---|
author | Mboussi, Daisy Aurore Steinely Lin, Yuxi Fornah, Lovel Ma, Wei |
author_facet | Mboussi, Daisy Aurore Steinely Lin, Yuxi Fornah, Lovel Ma, Wei |
author_sort | Mboussi, Daisy Aurore Steinely |
collection | PubMed |
description | In China, HIV testing is the important first step of HIV prevention and treatment cascades but is not widely adopted by men who have sex with men (MSM). However, social media has been increasingly used to promote and improve HIV testing. This study aimed to assess the impact of social media use on HIV testing and explore the mediator in the relationship between social media and HIV testing. The authors conducted a cross-sectional study among 935 MSM participants in 11 cities in Shandong Province from 14 September to 6 December 2020. Multivariable regression was conducted to assess the relationship between social media use and HIV testing uptake, and mediation analysis was used to assess the mediation effect of HIV testing self-efficacy in the relationship between social media use and HIV testing. The present study findings showed that social media use was related to HIV testing (aOR = 3.024, 95% CI: 1.869, 4.892) and HIV self-testing uptake (aOR = 1.894, 95% CI: 1.228, 2.922), but was not related to HIV facility-based testing (aOR = 1.709, 95% CI: 0.806, 3.625, p = 0.162). A mediation effect of HIV testing self-efficacy was found between social media use and HIV testing (indirect effect: 0.13, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.29), facility-based testing (indirect effect: 0.05, 95% CI: 0.003, 0.16), and self-testing uptake (indirect effect: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.16). Social media could be an effective tool to improve HIV testing, and healthcare providers should pay more attention to HIV testing self-efficacy in HIV testing promotion. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10093945 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-100939452023-04-13 Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China Mboussi, Daisy Aurore Steinely Lin, Yuxi Fornah, Lovel Ma, Wei Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In China, HIV testing is the important first step of HIV prevention and treatment cascades but is not widely adopted by men who have sex with men (MSM). However, social media has been increasingly used to promote and improve HIV testing. This study aimed to assess the impact of social media use on HIV testing and explore the mediator in the relationship between social media and HIV testing. The authors conducted a cross-sectional study among 935 MSM participants in 11 cities in Shandong Province from 14 September to 6 December 2020. Multivariable regression was conducted to assess the relationship between social media use and HIV testing uptake, and mediation analysis was used to assess the mediation effect of HIV testing self-efficacy in the relationship between social media use and HIV testing. The present study findings showed that social media use was related to HIV testing (aOR = 3.024, 95% CI: 1.869, 4.892) and HIV self-testing uptake (aOR = 1.894, 95% CI: 1.228, 2.922), but was not related to HIV facility-based testing (aOR = 1.709, 95% CI: 0.806, 3.625, p = 0.162). A mediation effect of HIV testing self-efficacy was found between social media use and HIV testing (indirect effect: 0.13, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.29), facility-based testing (indirect effect: 0.05, 95% CI: 0.003, 0.16), and self-testing uptake (indirect effect: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.16). Social media could be an effective tool to improve HIV testing, and healthcare providers should pay more attention to HIV testing self-efficacy in HIV testing promotion. MDPI 2023-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10093945/ /pubmed/37047997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075383 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mboussi, Daisy Aurore Steinely Lin, Yuxi Fornah, Lovel Ma, Wei Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title | Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title_full | Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title_fullStr | Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title_short | Impact of Social Media Use on HIV Testing and Related Mediator among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Shandong Province, China |
title_sort | impact of social media use on hiv testing and related mediator among men who have sex with men in shandong province, china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37047997 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075383 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT mboussidaisyauroresteinely impactofsocialmediauseonhivtestingandrelatedmediatoramongmenwhohavesexwithmeninshandongprovincechina AT linyuxi impactofsocialmediauseonhivtestingandrelatedmediatoramongmenwhohavesexwithmeninshandongprovincechina AT fornahlovel impactofsocialmediauseonhivtestingandrelatedmediatoramongmenwhohavesexwithmeninshandongprovincechina AT mawei impactofsocialmediauseonhivtestingandrelatedmediatoramongmenwhohavesexwithmeninshandongprovincechina |