TY - JOUR
T1 - Interest in couples-based voluntary hiv counseling and testing in a national U.S. Sample of gay and bisexual men
T2 - The role of demographic and HIV risk factors
AU - Rendina, H. Jonathon
AU - Breslow, Aaron S.
AU - Grov, Christian
AU - Ventuneac, Ana
AU - Starks, Tyrel J.
AU - Parsons, Jeffrey T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Data for this study were gathered in concert with online recruitment efforts to identify and screen potential participants to enroll in one of the following studies: Pillow Talk (R01-MH087714; PI: Parsons), MiChat (R03-DA031607; PI: Weinberger), Brotha (U01-PS000707 PI: Nanin), and W.I.S.E. (R01-DA029567; PI: Parsons). H. Jonathon Rendina was supported in part by a National Institute of Mental Health Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31-MH095622). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors would like to give special thanks for the contributions of Andrea Vial, Anna Johnson, Chris Hietikko, Joshua Guthals, and Ruben Jimenez.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Main partnerships represent one context in which HIV transmission may occur that has been insufficiently addressed to date for gay and bisexual men, but few studies have focused on the acceptability of couples-based voluntary HIV counseling and testing (CVCT) for male couples in the U.S. Our aim in this study was to explore the acceptability of CVCT among a national U.S. sample of 1,532 gay and bisexual men surveyed online using a sexual networking site. We examined the role of demographic (i.e.; geographic region, age, relationship status, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity) and HIV risk (i.e.; substance use, number of sexual partners, unprotected anal intercourse, sexual role identity, and sexual compulsivity) factors that may be associated with CVCT among the full sample and among partnered men separately. We found that single men expressed higher interest in CVCT than partnered men and that greater age was more strongly associated with lower interest in CVCT for partnered men than for single men. The intersection of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity was also significantly associated with CVCT interest, with a higher proportion of Black bisexual men being interested than White bisexual men. These findings suggest that the uptake of CVCT may be less impacted by HIV risk factors than by demographic factors and that young gay and bisexual men of color - for whom rates of HIV continue to rise - may be the group with the highest levels of interest in CVCT.
AB - Main partnerships represent one context in which HIV transmission may occur that has been insufficiently addressed to date for gay and bisexual men, but few studies have focused on the acceptability of couples-based voluntary HIV counseling and testing (CVCT) for male couples in the U.S. Our aim in this study was to explore the acceptability of CVCT among a national U.S. sample of 1,532 gay and bisexual men surveyed online using a sexual networking site. We examined the role of demographic (i.e.; geographic region, age, relationship status, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity) and HIV risk (i.e.; substance use, number of sexual partners, unprotected anal intercourse, sexual role identity, and sexual compulsivity) factors that may be associated with CVCT among the full sample and among partnered men separately. We found that single men expressed higher interest in CVCT than partnered men and that greater age was more strongly associated with lower interest in CVCT for partnered men than for single men. The intersection of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity was also significantly associated with CVCT interest, with a higher proportion of Black bisexual men being interested than White bisexual men. These findings suggest that the uptake of CVCT may be less impacted by HIV risk factors than by demographic factors and that young gay and bisexual men of color - for whom rates of HIV continue to rise - may be the group with the highest levels of interest in CVCT.
KW - Gay and bisexual men
KW - Gay couples
KW - HIV prevention for couples
KW - HIV testing
KW - Sexual orientation
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U2 - 10.1007/s10508-013-0226-6
DO - 10.1007/s10508-013-0226-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 24277109
AN - SCOPUS:84892674940
SN - 0004-0002
VL - 43
SP - 149
EP - 159
JO - Archives of Sexual Behavior
JF - Archives of Sexual Behavior
IS - 1
ER -