Use of Smartphones Applications for Partnering among MSM

使用智能手机应用程序在 MSM 之间建立合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8263120
• 负责人: KAROLYNN SIEGEL
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-16 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8263120
• 关键词: African American; Age; Arousal; Attention; Cellular Phone; Computer software; Data Collection; Disclosure; Effectiveness; Emotional; Ethnic Origin; Exploratory/Developmental Grant; Explosion; Funding; Gays; Gender; Generations; Glosso-Sterandryl; Goals; HIV; HIV Infections; HIV Seropositivity; HIV/STD; Hispanics; Home environment; Impulsivity; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Latino; Lead; Location; Market Research; Marketing; Mediation; Methods; Nature; New York City; Participant; Pattern; Positioning Attribute; Process; Race; Research; Research Design; Research Project Grants; Risk Reduction; Role; Sexual Partners; Site; Speed; System; Technology; Telephone; Text; Time; Work; base; design; digital; experience; foot; innovation; insight; meetings; men; men who have sex with men; new technology; safer sex; sex; sex risk; sexual encounter; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Smartphone technologies (i.e., cellular telephones, such as the iPhone, Android phones, and newer generation Blackberry phones), have provided a new venue for sexual partnering among men who have sex with men (MSM). Indeed, there are a rapidly growing number of smartphone applications designed to facilitate sexual partnering among MSM. Although all smartphones can access Internet sites for sexual partnering, smartphone applications designed for sexual partnering go a step further by utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology built into smartphones to help MSM identify potential partners who are geographically closest to their current position. As such, these technologies may have accelerated the rate with which men can meet and connect with sexual partners over that of the traditional Internet. Furthermore, given the expediency with which men are able to arrange sexual encounters using these applications, there is cause to question if, when, and how sexual negotiation and serostatus disclosure occurs. The overall study goal is to understand how sexual risk behaviors among MSM may be facilitated by the nature of GPS-enabled smartphone applications, the way they are used, and the process by which sexual partnering occurs via smartphone applications. We will conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with 60 MSM (20 African American, 20 Latino, 20 White; 25% of whom are HIV-positive) who have utilized smartphone applications to meet sexual partners in the past 3 months. For each of the aims below, while our focus is on smartphone use, we will also collect information on their use of Internet partnering sites to use as a context for comparison and identify what might be unique to smartphone usage. The study aims are: 1. Examine how and why smartphone applications are used for sexual partnering, the situations and locations in which they are used, in order to gain insights into how these use patterns might contribute to sexual risk behaviors. 2. Investigate the process by which MSM use smartphone applications to find sexual partners (i.e., who they look for, how they present themselves, how they communicate, extent of safer sex negotiation,and disclosure) to gain insights into how this process may contribute to sexual risk behaviors. 3. Investigate the sexual and emotional states (e.g., more/less urgency, arousal, impulsivity) that MSM experience when seeking or meeting sexual partners using smartphone applications and gain insights into how these states may contribute to sexual risk behaviors. 4. Examine the perceived need and acceptability of a smartphone delivered intervention and assess what MSM perceive as needed components for a smartphone-based sexual risk reduction intervention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Smartphone technologies (such as the iPhone, Android phones, and newer generation Blackberry phones), have provided a new venue for sexual partnering among men who have sex with men (MSM). Smartphone applications designed for sexual partnering utilize GPS technology built into smartphones to help MSM identify potential partners who are geographically closest to their current position. As such, these technologies may have accelerated the rate with which men can meet and connect with sexual partners over that of the traditional Internet. To understand how sexual risk behaviors among MSM may be facilitated by the nature of GPS-enabled smartphone applications, we will conduct in-depth qualitative interviews with 60 MSM (20 African American, 20 Latino, 20 White; 25% of whom are HIV-positive) who have utilized smartphone applications to meet sexual partners in the past 3 months.

描述（由申请人提供）：智能手机技术（即蜂窝电话，如 iPhone、Android 手机和新一代黑莓手机）为男男性行为者 (MSM) 之间的性伴侣提供了新的场所。事实上，旨在促进 MSM 之间性伴侣的智能手机应用程序数量正在迅速增长。虽然所有智能手机都可以访问互联网网站进行性伴侣，但专为性伴侣设计的智能手机应用程序更进一步，利用智能手机内置的全球定位系统 (GPS) 技术来帮助 MSM 识别地理位置最接近其当前位置的潜在伴侣。因此，这些技术可能加快了男性通过传统互联网与性伴侣见面和联系的速度。此外，考虑到男性能够利用这些应用程序方便地安排性接触，我们有理由质疑是否、何时以及如何进行性谈判和血清状态披露。总体研究目标是了解支持 GPS 的智能手机应用程序的性质、使用方式以及通过智能手机应用程序发生性伴侣的过程如何促进 MSM 中的性危险行为。我们将对过去 3 个月内使用智能手机应用程序结识性伴侣的 60 名 MSM（20 名非裔美国人、20 名拉丁裔、20 名白人；其中 25% 为 HIV 阳性）进行深入定性访谈。对于以下每个目标，虽然我们的重点是智能手机的使用，但我们还将收集有关他们使用互联网合作网站的信息，以用作比较的背景，并确定智能手机使用的独特之处。该研究的目的是： 1. 检查智能手机应用程序如何以及为何用于性伴侣、使用这些应用程序的情况和地点，以深入了解这些使用模式如何可能导致性危险行为。 2. 调查 MSM 使用智能手机应用程序寻找性伴侣的过程（即他们寻找谁、他们如何表现自己、他们如何沟通、安全性行为谈判的程度以及披露），以深入了解该过程如何导致性危险行为。 3. 调查 MSM 在使用智能手机应用程序寻找或会见性伴侣时经历的性和情绪状态（例如，或多或少的紧迫性、性唤起、冲动），并深入了解这些状态如何导致性风险行为。 4. 检查智能手机提供的干预措施的感知需求和可接受性，并评估 MSM 认为基于智能手机的性风险降低干预措施所需的组成部分。 公共健康相关性：智能手机技术（例如 iPhone、Android 手机和新一代黑莓手机）为男男性接触者 (MSM) 之间的性伴侣提供了新的场所。专为性伴侣设计的智能手机应用程序利用智能手机内置的 GPS 技术来帮助 MSM 识别地理位置最接近其当前位置的潜在伴侣。因此，这些技术可能加快了男性通过传统互联网与性伴侣见面和联系的速度。为了了解支持 GPS 的智能手机应用程序的性质如何促进 MSM 中的性危险行为，我们将对过去 3 个月内使用智能手机应用程序结识性伴侣的 60 名 MSM（20 名非裔美国人、20 名拉丁裔、20 名白人；其中 25% 为 HIV 阳性）进行深入的定性访谈。