Publications by authors named "Andrew Hickok"
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- An innovative online program called Test Yourself Colorado (TYC) offers free at-home HIV and STI testing, aiming to overcome barriers to testing in the U.S.
- In its first year, TYC served 1,790 clients; a significant percentage were men who have sex with men (MSM), many of whom had never been tested for HIV.
- The program identified positive STI cases in 9.6% of clients, with higher rates among MSM, while highlighting the need to address disparities in testing return rates based on race and ethnicity.
Health research shows that knowing about health risks may not translate into behavior change. However, such research typically operationalizes health information acquisition with knowledge tests. Information scientists who investigate socially embedded information behaviors could help improve understanding of potential associations between information behavior-as opposed to knowledge-and health behavior formation, thus providing new opportunities to investigate the effects of health information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiscrimination has been linked to negative health outcomes among minority populations. The increasing evidence regarding health disparities among sexual minorities has underscored the importance of addressing sexuality discrimination as a public health issue. We conducted a web-based survey between May and September of 2012 in order to obtain a diverse sample of young men who have sex with men (ages 18-29; N = 397; 83% gay; 49% Black, 27% White, 15% Latino) living in the Detroit Metro Area (Michigan, USA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypersexual behavior has been identified as a sexual risk correlate among gay and bisexual men (GBM). The Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI) has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of hypersexual behavior in clinical populations, yet it has not been used to assess hypersexual behavior in nonclinical samples. We examined the psychometric properties of the HBI with survey data recorded between December 2009 and March 2010 in a sample of young men (N = 366, M = 21.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We lack a systematic portrait of the relationship between community involvement and how people interact with information. Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are a population for which these relationships are especially salient: their gay community involvement varies and their information technology use is high. YMSM under age 24 are also one of the US populations with the highest risk of HIV/AIDS.
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