NCT04109443

Young Men and Media Study

Influences on Risk Behaviors Among Young Men

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 154 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 14 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Adolescent sexual minority males (ASMM) continue to account for a disproportionate number of HIV infections in the United States. Racial and ethnic minority populations are particularly affected. Increased HIV rates reflect sexual risk behaviors during early sexual experiences. Research suggests that initial sexual risk-taking occurs during adolescence among sexual minority males. Therefore, it is important for HIV prevention interventions to target adolescent sexual minority males. Targeting sexual minority males during adolescence will help them learn and establish healthy sexual behaviors early in their psychosexual development, which will have both immediate and long-term health benefits.To promote adolescent sexual minority males' critical examination of online media and decrease their sexual risk-taking, this study proposes an exploratory clinical trial to pilot test an online sexual health media literacy intervention that was developed during formative research for feasibility and acceptability. Overall, the proposed research has the potential to reach a wide audience of sexual minority males early in their sexual development, ultimately decreasing their sexual risk-taking and reducing the number of new HIV infections in this population.

Conditions

• Sexual Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Young Men & Media Program	The online sexual health media literacy website includes content about (1) male anatomy; (2) HIV/STI prevention; (3) overall sexual health; and (4) sexually explicit online media (SEOM) literacy.
BEHAVIORAL	Available websites on safe sex and preventing STIs	Available websites (such as by the CDC) that provide information about sexual health and preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-03-27
• Primary completion: 2020-08-17
• Completion: 2020-08-17
• First posted: 2019-09-30
• Last updated: 2021-09-14
• Results posted: 2021-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States