Digital crowdsourced intervention to promote HIV testing among MSM in China: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are an important HIV key population in China. However, HIV testing rates among MSM remain suboptimal. Digital crowdsourced media interventions may be a useful tool to reach this marginalized population. We define digital crowdsourced media as using social media, mobile phone applications, Internet, or other digital approaches to disseminate messages developed from crowdsourcing contests. The proposed cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) study aims to assess the effectiveness of a digital crowdsourced intervention to increase HIV testing uptake and decrease risky sexual behaviors among Chinese MSM.

Methods

A two-arm, cluster-randomized controlled trial will be implemented in eleven cities (ten clusters) in Shandong Province, Chi

SUBMITTER: Ren C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673095 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature