为加拿大安大略省的男同性恋、双性恋和酷儿提供基于在线的性健康外展服务:与多部门一线服务提供者和管理者的定性访谈。
Providing Online-Based Sexual Health Outreach to Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men in Ontario, Canada: Qualitative Interviews with Multisectoral Frontline Service Providers and Managers.
机构信息
1 Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto , Toronto, Canada .
2 Ontario HIV Treatment Network , Toronto, Canada .
出版信息
AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2018 Jul;32(7):282-287. doi: 10.1089/apc.2018.0027. Epub 2018 Jun 13.
The Internet is a common tool for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) to find sexual partners and sexual health information. Given persistently high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates among MSM, it is important to examine the role of online outreach for MSM as part of HIV prevention and care. We provide an overview of the unique perspectives of online sexual health outreach, delivered through AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) through sociosexual Internet sites and mobile applications. Data were drawn from the qualitative arm of the community-based Cruising Counts study conducted across Ontario from December 2013 to January 2014. ASO online outreach providers and managers (n = 22) were recruited to complete a 1-h in-person/telephone interview to explore in-depth their experiences with, and perspectives on, delivering online outreach services for MSM in Ontario. Thematic analyses were conducted inductively using NVivo 10. Service providers suggested a high demand for online outreach services for MSM. Strengths and advantages of online outreach over face-to-face outreach included anonymity, instant access to services, peer model, and accessing hard-to-reach populations of MSM. Barriers included consistent quality of service, collaborations between companies that own online technologies and outreach service agencies, budgetary and staff capacity issues, and uncertainty of best practices and evaluation parameters for online outreach. Findings from these interviews can inform service providers, policy makers, and researchers on how online sexual health outreach can play a greater role in HIV prevention by better acknowledging and addressing the opportunities and barriers experienced by service providers working with MSM communities online.
互联网是男同性恋、双性恋和其他与男性发生性关系的男性(MSM)寻找性伴侣和性健康信息的常用工具。鉴于 MSM 中的人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)感染率持续居高不下,因此重要的是要研究在线外展在 HIV 预防和护理中的作用,作为 MSM 的一部分。我们提供了通过艾滋病服务组织(ASO)通过社交性互联网网站和移动应用程序提供在线性健康外展的独特观点概述。数据来自 2013 年 12 月至 2014 年 1 月在安大略省进行的基于社区的 Cruising Counts 研究的定性部分。招募 ASO 在线外展提供商和经理(n=22)完成了 1 小时的面对面/电话访谈,以深入探讨他们在安大略省为 MSM 提供在线外展服务的经验和观点。使用 NVivo 10 进行了归纳式主题分析。服务提供商表示对 MSM 的在线外展服务有很高的需求。在线外展相对于面对面外展的优势和优势包括匿名性、即时获得服务、同龄人模式以及接触难以接触的 MSM 人群。障碍包括服务质量的一致性、拥有在线技术和外展服务机构的公司之间的合作、预算和人员能力问题以及在线外展最佳实践和评估参数的不确定性。这些访谈的结果可以为服务提供商、政策制定者和研究人员提供信息,了解在线性健康外展如何通过更好地认识和解决与在线 MSM 社区合作的服务提供商所面临的机遇和障碍,在 HIV 预防中发挥更大的作用。