General and health-related Internet use among an urban, community-based sample of HIV-positive women: implications for intervention development.
Internet-based HIV interventions are increasingly common, although little focus has been on HIV-positive women. To understand the feasibility of using the Internet to deliver behavioral interventions to HIV-positive women, we sought to describe patterns of Internet use for general and health-related...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 536 - 545 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103751460&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 103751460 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09540121 AAE jtl: AIDS Care issn: 09540121 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2015 vid: 27 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 103751460 100751006 10.1080/09540121.2014.980215 NLM25411825 103751460 ppf: 536 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: General and health-related Internet use among an urban, community-based sample of HIV-positive women: implications for intervention development. aug: au: Blackstock, Oni J. Haughton, Lorlette J. Garner, Ruby Y. Horvath, Keith J. Norwood, Chris Cunningham, Chinazo O. affil: Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA sug: subj: HIV Infections Epidemiology Internet Utilization Urban Areas Help Seeking Behavior Evaluation Funding Source Human New York Interviews Chi Square Test Descriptive Statistics Surveys Kruskal-Wallis Test Audiorecording Data Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis Software P-Value Adult Middle Age Female Self Report Cellular Phone Utilization Social Media Utilization Age Factors Convenience Sample Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female ab: Internet-based HIV interventions are increasingly common, although little focus has been on HIV-positive women. To understand the feasibility of using the Internet to deliver behavioral interventions to HIV-positive women, we sought to describe patterns of Internet use for general and health-related purposes and to explore differences between Internet-using and non-using women. From February 2014 to April 2014, 103 women were recruited at six community-based organizations in the Bronx, NY that provide services to HIV-positive persons. Women completed a 30-minute interview and answered a brief survey of socio-demographic factors, risk behavior and clinical characteristics. We performedχ2and Kruskal-Wallis tests to compare Internet users and non-users. Sixty-one percent of participants were current Internet users, most of whom used a personal electronic device (e.g., cellphone/smartphone) to access the Internet. While higher proportions of Internet users were passively engaged (e.g., signed up to receive email updates [42.9%] or watched an online video [58.7%] for health-related purposes), smaller proportions (12.7–15.9%) were involved in more interactive activities such as posting comments, questions, or information about health-related issues in an online discussion or a blog. A majority of Internet non-users (60.0%) expressed interest in going online. Lack of computer or Internet access (37.5%) and Internet navigation skills (37.5%) were the primary reasons for non-use. Compared with non-users, Internet users were more likely to be younger, to have higher socioeconomic status, and to report low health-related social support. Despite having a lower proportion of Internet users in our study than the general population, Internet-using women in our study had relatively high levels of online engagement and went online for both general and health-related purposes. However, Internet-based interventions targeting HIV-positive women will likely need to include providing computer and/or Internet access as well as training participants in how to navigate the Internet. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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