User Views on Online Sexual Health Symptom Checker Tool: Qualitative Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delayed diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) contributes to poorer health outcomes and onward transmission to sexual partners. Access to best-practice sexual health care may be limited by barriers such as cost, distance to care providers, sexual stigma, and trust in health care providers. Online assessments of risk offer a novel means of supporting access to evidence-based sexual health information, testing, and treatment by providing more individualized sexual health information based on user inputs.

Objective

This developmental evaluation aims to find potential users' views and experiences in relation to an online assessment of risk, called iSpySTI (Melbourne Sexual Health Center), including the likely impacts of use.

Methods

SUBMITTER: King AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11574491 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature