Centers for Behavioral and Preventative Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2020 Feb;24(2):373-378. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02424-9.
This brief report presents a preliminary investigation of the relations between minor consent laws for HIV testing/treatment and testing behavior among adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM; N = 127; ages 14-17). Most participants had legal capacity to consent without parental/guardian permission (HIV testing: 79%; HIV testing/treatment: 65%). Despite having this legal right, few (15%) had ever tested. Capacity to consent was not associated with HIV testing in this sample; nevertheless, those who had not disclosed their sexual activity to parents/guardians were less likely to have tested. Confidentiality concerns may be a barrier to testing for these youth despite laws intended to enable independent testing.
本简要报告初步调查了未成年同意进行 HIV 检测/治疗的法律规定与青少年性少数群体男性(ASMM;N=127;年龄 14-17 岁)检测行为之间的关系。大多数参与者具有在未经父母/监护人同意的情况下进行同意的法定能力(HIV 检测:79%;HIV 检测/治疗:65%)。尽管他们拥有这一合法权利,但很少有人(15%)进行过检测。在这个样本中,同意能力与 HIV 检测无关;然而,那些没有向父母/监护人透露其性活动的人,进行检测的可能性较低。尽管法律旨在允许独立检测,但对这些年轻人来说,保密问题可能是检测的障碍。