Acceptability of an Internet-Based Partner Notification System for Sexually Transmitted Infection Exposure Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

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ID11024173
AuthorsMatthew J Mimiaga (0000-0001-9256-2905, Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Andrew D Fair (Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Andrew Fair (0000-0001-7034-6232, Fenway Health), Ashley M Tetu (Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), David S Novak (0000-0002-1675-4988, Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Rodney VanDerwarker (Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Thomas Bertrand (0000-0001-8693-8478, Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Stephan Adelson (Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...), Kenneth H Mayer (0000-0001-7460-733X, Matthew J. Mimiaga is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, MA, and the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Andrew D. Fair, Ashley M. Tetu, and Rodney VanDerwarker are with the Fenway Institute, Boston. David S. Novak and Thomas Bertrand are with the State Laboratory Institute, Division of STD Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain. Stephan Adelson is with Online Buddies Inc, Cambridge, MA. Kenneth H. Mayer is with the Fenway Institute, Boston, and...)
Year2008
Volume98
Issue6
Pages1009-1011
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2006.098467
PMID17901442
PMCIDPMC2377295
OpenAlexW2032056701
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited16

US men who have sex with men (n=1848) completed an online questionnaire about their willingness to use Internet-based partner notification. Eighty-one percent reported that it would be important to them to receive a partner notification e-mail if they had been exposed to a sexually transmitted infection. Seventy percent reported that if infected, they would use a public health specialist to inform partners of possible exposure through Internet notification. There was broad acceptance of Internet partner notification by at-risk US men who have sex with men, including a willingness to receive or initiate a notification e-mail

Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Men who have sex with men · Partner notification · Public health · The Internet · World Wide Web · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Demography · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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