Darren L. Whitfield

1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, American

Shanna K. Kattari

2 University of Denver, Denver, CO, American

N. Eugene Walls

2 College of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Alia Al-Tayyib

3 Denver Wellness, Denver, CO, American

Abstract

In 2021, homosexual, bisexual, along with other people who have intercourse with boys (MSM) comprise more than half of all of the newer HIV diagnoses in america, making use of the major mode of issues being condomless rectal intercourse (CAS). While researches document a link between using Internet-based social media sites and enhanced CAS, the study about union between cellphone portable programs (age.g., Grindr, Scruff, Jack’d) and CAS is much less created. The current learn examines perhaps the way homosexual, bisexual, alongside MSM come across sexual partners forecasts a rise in possibility of doing CAS in an urban, noncoastal U.S. town. Performing a second data testing regarding the 2011 nationwide HIV behavior monitoring study for Denver (N = 546), the writers performed binary logistic regression analyses to assess the models that forecast exactly how MSM find sexual associates, while the odds of engaging in CAS. Whilst results declare that get older and battle tend to be linked to the means of finding sexual partners, online or a mobile software discover sexual associates had not been predictive of CAS (Z_Wald = .41, p = .52; Z_Wald = .80, p = .37). When it comes to HIV prevention, these results advise a requirement for input to deal with HIV prevention on multiple amounts (age.g., individual, party, society). Continue reading “Grindr, Scruff, and on the quest: Predictors of Condomless anal intercourse, Web incorporate, and Cellular phone software utilize Among boys who’ve Sex With people”