Young Sean D, Swendeman Dallas, Holloway Ian W, Reback Cathy J, Kao Uyen
UCLA Department of Family Medicine, University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, 10880 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA, 90049, USA.
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2015 Dec;12(4):462-71. doi: 10.1007/s11904-015-0295-3.
Substance users are at elevated risk for HIV. HIV researchers, particularly at the intersection of HIV and substance use, have requested new methods to better understand and address this important area. New technologies, such as social media and mobile applications, are increasingly being used as research tools in studies on HIV and substance use. These technologies have the potential to build on existing recruitment methods, provide new and improved intervention methods, and introduce novel ways of monitoring and predicting new HIV cases. However, little work has been done to review and broadly explore the types of studies being conducted on the use of technologies to address HIV and substance use. This systematic literature review identified studies on this topic between 2005 and 2015. We identified 33 studies on this topic after excluding studies that did not fit inclusion criteria. Studies were either observational (n = 24) or interventional (n = 9), with the majority being pilot studies exploring the feasibility of using these new technologies to study HIV and substance use. We discuss the implications of this work along with limitations and recommendations for future research on this topic.
药物使用者感染艾滋病毒的风险较高。艾滋病毒研究人员，尤其是从事艾滋病毒与药物使用交叉领域研究的人员，一直在寻求新方法，以便更好地理解和应对这一重要领域。诸如社交媒体和移动应用程序等新技术越来越多地被用作艾滋病毒与药物使用研究的工具。这些技术有可能在现有招募方法的基础上加以改进，提供新的且经过优化的干预方法，并引入监测和预测新艾滋病毒病例的新途径。然而，在审查和广泛探索利用技术来应对艾滋病毒与药物使用方面所开展的研究类型方面，几乎没有做什么工作。这项系统性文献综述确定了2005年至2015年期间关于该主题的研究。在排除不符合纳入标准的研究后，我们确定了33项关于该主题的研究。这些研究要么是观察性研究（n = 24），要么是干预性研究（n = 9），其中大多数是探索利用这些新技术研究艾滋病毒与药物使用可行性的试点研究。我们讨论了这项工作的意义以及局限性，并为该主题的未来研究提出了建议。
