Nourimand Firoozeh, Keramat Afsaneh, Sayahi Masoumeh, Bozorgian Leila, Hashempour Zahra
Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran.
Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS. 2022 Jul-Dec;43(2):117-127. doi: 10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_55_22. Epub 2022 Nov 17.
Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is critical. Despite developing treatment and prevention programs, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are essential in developing acute and chronic diseases. Because "eHealth" (electronic-Health) has excellent potential for disseminating health information to the public regarding STDs, we aimed to identify and review all published articles focusing on preventing STIs. After constructing the design and answering population, intervention, comparison, and outcome questions, two authors conducted a systematic literature search in four online databases in January 2022. The screening process and data extraction were conducted by two authors independently, and then, a quality assessment was performed. After removing duplicates, and two rounds of shortlisting, 16 articles were included for data extraction out of 5113 entries. Included studies were of different designs and assessed six preventive outcomes categories, with condom use being the most frequent result among studies. We also extracted implementation outcomes and reviewed them. Included studies with 13,137 participants have provided reasonable evidence of the effectiveness of different types of eHealth in improving STI prevention interventions. Although this systematic review was not without limitations, it can no longer be ignored that eHealth modes offer many opportunities to prevent STDs, especially among the young population.
性传播疾病（STDs）的预防至关重要。尽管已经制定了治疗和预防方案，但性传播感染（STIs）仍是引发急慢性疾病的重要因素。由于“电子健康”（eHealth）在向公众传播有关性传播疾病的健康信息方面具有巨大潜力，我们旨在识别和综述所有聚焦于预防性传播感染的已发表文章。在构建研究设计并回答人群、干预措施、对照和结局问题后，两位作者于2022年1月在四个在线数据库中进行了系统的文献检索。筛选过程和数据提取由两位作者独立完成，随后进行了质量评估。在去除重复项并经过两轮筛选后，从5113条记录中纳入了16篇文章进行数据提取。纳入的研究设计各异，评估了六个预防结局类别，其中避孕套使用是研究中最常见的结果。我们还提取了实施结果并进行了综述。纳入的涉及13137名参与者的研究为不同类型的电子健康在改善性传播感染预防干预措施方面的有效性提供了合理证据。尽管这项系统综述并非没有局限性，但电子健康模式为预防性传播疾病提供了诸多机会，尤其是在年轻人群体中，这一点已不容忽视。
