HIV behavioral research online
HIV behavioral research online
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DOI：
10.1007/s11524-005-9008-3
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Remien, RH
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作者：
Chiasson, MA;Parsons, JT;Remien, RH
互联网接入在各个年龄和性别的人们互动方式上引发了一场全球性的革命。许多人转向互联网寻求爱情、伴侣和性，这促使研究人员将行为研究转移到线上。与其他群体相比，男男性行为者（MSM）的性行为在网上得到了更密切的研究，因为面向同性恋的网站数量众多，且人们担心艾滋病病毒和其他性传播感染的传播日益增加。互联网不仅为行为研究的开展以及招募参与者参与一系列研究提供了一种新的媒介，它还具有尚未实现的潜力，能够根据个体的需求、兴趣和风险行为，向大量男男性行为者传递创新的减少伤害和预防信息。基于互联网的性行为研究在快速招募多样化样本方面有许多优势，这些样本包括通过常规方法无法接触到的个体（即未表明同性恋身份以及在地理和社会上孤立的男男性行为者等）。基于互联网的研究在研究设计、参与者招募、调查实施和结果解释方面也带来了一些新的方法学挑战。此外，由于在线研究存在一些伦理问题，包括难以核实知情同意、对未成年人进行调查的障碍以及确保匿名的能力。本文综述了基于互联网的男男性行为者性行为研究，对基于互联网研究的方法学和伦理挑战进行了一般性讨论，并对未来的跨学科研究提出了建议。
Internet access has caused a global revolution in the way people of all ages and genders interact. Many have turned to the Internet to seek love, companionship, and sex, prompting researchers to move behavioral studies online. The sexual behavior of men who have sex with men (MSM) has been more closely studied than that of any other group online given the abundance of gay-oriented websites and concerns about increasing transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Not only does the Internet provide a new medium for the conduct of behavioral research and for participant recruitment into an array of research studies, it has the as yet unrealized potential to reach huge numbers of MSM with innovative harm reduction and prevention messages tailored to individualized needs, interests, and risk behavior. Internet-based research on sexual behavior has many advantages in rapidity of recruitment of diverse samples which include individuals unreachable through conventional methods (i.e., non-gay identified and geographically and socially isolated MSM, etc.). Internet-based research also presents some new methodologic challenges in study design, participant recruitment, survey implementation, and interpretation of results. In addition, there are ethical issues tun. que to online research including difficulties in verifying informed consent, obstacles to surveying minors, and the ability to assure anonymity. This paper presents a review of Internet-based research on sexual behavior in MSM, a general discussion of the methodologic and ethical challenges of Internet-based research, and recommendations for future interdisciplinary research.