Ybarra ML, Prescott T, Price-Feeney M. Developing Girl2Girl: A text messaging-based pregnancy prevention program for LGB girls 14-18 years of age. Oral presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; 9-12 Nov 2017, Atlanta, GA. Developing Girl2Girl from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
Reasons why sexual minority girls in the United States have sex with girls and guys: A national qualitative study
Saewyc E, Ybarra ML, Wolowic J, Santana-Parrilla J, Prescott T, Goodenow C, Rosario M. Reasons why sexual minority girls in the United States have sex with girls and guys: A national qualitative study. Oral presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; 9-12 Nov 2017, Atlanta, GA. Reasons why sexual minority girls in the United States have sex with girls and guys: A national qualitative study from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
Survey development for Girl2Girl, a text messaging-based pregnancy prevention program for sexual minority adolescent girls
Price-Feeney M, Ybarra ML, Prescott T. Survey development for Girl2Girl, a text messaging-based pregnancy prevention program for sexual minority adolescent girls. Oral presentation at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; 9-12 Nov 2017, Atlanta, GA. Survey Development for Girl2Girl from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States
Ybarra M, Price-Feeney M, Prescott T, Rosario M, Saewyc E. STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States. Poster presentation at the 2017 International Association for Adolescent Health conference; 28 Oct 2017; New Delhi, India. STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
Lessons learned using FB to recruit LGBT adults across eastern Africa into online sexual health focus groups
Ybarra M, Chen E, Prescott T. Lessons learned using FB to recruit LGBT adults across eastern Africa into online sexual health focus groups. International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research 2017 Conference; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 12-13 Jul 2017. Lessons learned using FB to recruit LGBT adults across eastern Africa into online sexual health focus groups from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States
Ybarra M, Prescott T, Price-Feeney M, Saewyc E, Rosario M. STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States. International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research 2017 Conference; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 12-13 Jul 2017. STI testing behavior among sexual minority adolescent women recruited from FB in the United States from Center for Innovative Public Health Research … [Read more...]
Pilot RCT results of an mHealth HIV prevention program for sexual minority male adolescents
Ybarra ML, Prescott TL, Phillips II GL, Bull SS, Parsons JT, Mustanski B. Pilot RCT results of an mHealth HIV prevention program for sexual minority male adolescents. Peds. 2017; 140 (1): 1-10. 10.1542/peds.2016-2999. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Guy2Guy (G2G) is the first comprehensive HIV prevention program developed for sexual minority males as young as 14 years old and is delivered nationally via text messaging. Here, we report the results of the pilot randomized control trial. METHODS: G2G was tested against an attention-matched "healthy lifestyle" control (eg, self-esteem). Both programs lasted 5 weeks and delivered 5 to 10 text messages daily. A 1-week booster was delivered 6 weeks subsequently. Participants were cisgender males ages 14 to 18 years old who were gay, bisexual, and/or … [Read more...]
Health Indicators of Sexual Minority Youth Living in Rural and Non-rural Communities
Price-Feeney M, Ybarra ML, Mitchell K. Health Indicators of Sexual Minority Youth Living in Rural and Non-rural Communities. Oral presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; 16-17 Nov 2016, Phoenix, AZ. Data from the Teen Health and Technology study collected in 2010-2011 are discussed. … [Read more...]
Reaching adolescent gay, bisexual, and queer men online: Development and refinement of a national recruitment strategy
Prescott TL, Phillips G, 2nd, Dubois LZ, Bull S, Mustanski B, Ybarra ML. Reaching adolescent gay, bisexual, and queer men online: Development and refinement of a national recruitment strategy. J Med Internet Res. 2016;18(8):e200. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5602. Abstract: BACKGROUND: Using social networking websites to recruit research participants is increasingly documented in the literature, although few studies have leveraged these sites to reach those younger than 18 years. OBJECTIVE: To discuss the development and refinement of a recruitment protocol to reach and engage adolescent gay, bisexual, and other teenaged men who have sex with men (AGBM). Participants were recruited for development and evaluation activities related to Guy2Guy, a text messaging–based human immunodeficiency virus … [Read more...]
Program acceptability of a text-messaging based HIV prevention program for gay, bisexual, and queer adolescent males
Ybarra ML, Prescott TL, Phillips II GL, Parsons J, Bull S, Mustanski B. Program acceptability of a text-messaging based HIV prevention program for gay, bisexual, and queer adolescent males. Oral presentation at the 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference; 8 Dec 2015; Atlanta, GA. Data from the Guy2Guy study collected in 2012-2013 are discussed. … [Read more...]