Publications by authors named "Stephen Scott Jones"
Background: The HIV epidemic remains a major public health concern, particularly among youths living with HIV. While the availability of antiretroviral therapy has significantly improved the health outcomes of people living with HIV, there is growing evidence that youths living with HIV may be at increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the underlying mechanisms linking HIV and cardiovascular disease among youths living with HIV remain poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Digital strategies and broadened eligibility criteria may optimize the enrollment of youth living with HIV in mobile health adaptive interventions. Prior research suggests that digital recruitment strategies are more efficient than traditional methods for overcoming enrollment challenges of youth living with HIV in the United States.
Objective: This study highlights the challenges and strategies that explain screening and enrollment milestones in a national web-based adherence protocol for youth living with HIV.
Background: HIV mobile health (mHealth) interventions often incorporate interactive peer-to-peer features. The user-generated content (UGC) created by these features can offer valuable design insights by revealing what topics and life events are most salient for participants, which can serve as targets for subsequent interventions. However, unstructured, textual UGC can be difficult to analyze.
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- The study examines the diverse subgroups within gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM), emphasizing that they are not a monolithic population and often identify with various sexual subcultures.
- Researchers analyzed data from over 23,000 GBM to assess how their sexual subcultural community influences HIV prevention practices and health outcomes, finding significant differences based on sociodemographic factors and sexual behaviors.
- The findings highlight the importance of recognizing sexual subcultural identity when creating targeted interventions and marketing for HIV prevention, as shared experiences and group norms greatly impact decision-making around sexual health among GBM.
Background: Several studies have demonstrated no linked HIV transmissions in serodifferent sexual encounters where the partner with HIV has an undetectable viral load. As a result, awareness and dissemination of treatment as prevention, and movements such as "Undetectable = Untransmittable" (U = U), has grown.
Setting: We conducted an online cross-sectional survey from November 2017 through September 2018 to gather data from a total of 111,747 sexual minority men (SMM) in the United States.