Parent Facilitation of Condom Access and HIV Testing Associated with Improved Sexual Health Outcomes for Sexual Minority Young Men.

Autor: Barnett AP; Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, 1 Hoppin Street, Suite 204, Providence, RI, RI 02903, USA. andrew_barnett@brown.edu.; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. andrew_barnett@brown.edu., Huebner DM; Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: AIDS and behavior [AIDS Behav] 2024 Oct; Vol. 28 (10), pp. 3350-3361. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 04.
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-024-04428-6
Abstrakt: Sexual minority young men experience a high HIV incidence. Parent-based interventions are promising for prevention efforts, but further research is needed to identify specific, replicable parental behaviors associated with improved sexual health outcomes for sexual minority young men. We assessed parental behaviors in the domains of facilitating access to condoms, providing instruction in condom use, and supporting HIV testing, and tested whether parental behaviors were associated with sons' condom use self-efficacy and intentions to get tested for HIV. Data came from the baseline assessment of a pilot trial of a parent-based HIV prevention program, and participants were dyads (n = 61) of sexual minority young men (M. age: 16.87; 46% racial/ethnic minority) and their parents (M. age: 44.31; 26% racial/ethnic minority). Parents and sons reported on parental behaviors in each domain. Results indicated that parents' facilitation of access to condoms was associated with sons' condom use self-efficacy, and parents' facilitation of HIV testing was associated with sons' HIV testing intentions. Findings were robust across both parent and son reports of parental behaviors. Parental condom use instruction was unrelated to sons' condom use self-efficacy. Findings suggest that parent-based HIV prevention programs for sexual minority young men should encourage parents to provide instrumental assistance to their sons in accessing condoms and HIV testing. There is a need for further research to identify underlying mechanisms.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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