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Design of a syndemic based intervention to facilitate care for men who have sex with men with high risk behaviour: the syn.bas.in randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, June 2017
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Title
Design of a syndemic based intervention to facilitate care for men who have sex with men with high risk behaviour: the syn.bas.in randomized controlled trial
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BMC Infectious Diseases, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12879-017-2474-x
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Roel C. A. Achterbergh, Jannie J. van der Helm, Wim van den Brink, Henry J. C. de Vries

Abstract

Men who have sex with men (MSM) constitute a risk group for sexual transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. Despite counselling interventions, risk behaviour remains high. Syndemic theory holds that psychosocial problems often co-occur, interact and mutually reinforce each other, thereby increasing high risk behaviours and co-occurring diseases. Therefore, if co-occurring psychosocial problems were assessed and treated simultaneously, this might decrease high risk behaviour and disease. An open label randomized controlled trial will be conducted among 150 MSM with high risk behaviour recruited from the STI clinic of Amsterdam. Inclusion criteria are: HIV negative MSM with two STI and/or PEP treatment in the last 24 months, or HIV positive MSM with one STI in the last 24 months. All participants get questionnaires on the following syndemic domains: ADHD, depression, anxiety disorder, alexithymia and sex- and drug addiction. Participants in the control group receive standard care: STI screenings every three months and motivational interviewing based counselling. Participants in the experimental group receive standard care plus feedback based on the results of the questionnaires. All participants can be referred to co-located mental health or addiction services. The primary outcome is help seeking behaviour for mental health problems and/or drug use problems. The secondary outcomes are STI incidence and changes in sexual risk behaviour (i.e. condom use, number of anal sex partners, drug use during sex). This study will provide information on syndemic domains among MSM who show high risk behaviour and on the effect of screening and referral on help seeking behaviour and health (behaviour) outcomes. Trial Registration at clinicaltrail.gov, identifier NCT02859935 .

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 205 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 12%
Student > Master 21 10%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 18 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 7%
Other 43 21%
Unknown 65 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 35 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 34 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 8%
Unspecified 13 6%
Social Sciences 9 4%
Other 24 12%
Unknown 74 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2019.
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#6,722,818
of 25,340,976 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,138
of 8,546 outputs
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#98,132
of 323,659 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#47
of 176 outputs
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