Would the Siblings of Latinx Men Who Have Sex With Men Encourage Their Brothers to Use PrEP? Findings From a Feasibility and Acceptability Study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Would the Siblings of Latinx Men Who Have Sex With Men Encourage Their Brothers to Use PrEP? Findings From a Feasibility and Acceptability Study

Published:2023-10 Issue:5 Volume:35 Page:390-405
ISSN:0899-9546
Container-title:AIDS Education and Prevention
language:en
Short-container-title:AIDS Education and Prevention

Author:

del Pino Homero E.¹²³,Rojas Edwin⁴,Dācus Jagadīśa-devaśrī⁵,Durán Petra¹,Martínez Angel J.¹,Hernández José A.¹,Ayala George⁶,Zea María-Cecilia⁷,Schrode Katrina¹,Harawa Nina T.¹²

Affiliation:

1. Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California.

2. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

3. VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center), Los Angeles, California.

4. St. John's Community Health, Los Angeles, California.

5. The Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

6. Alameda County Public Health Department, San Leandro, California.

7. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Abstract

We explored whether siblings can be engaged in PrEP promotion. We used the Information-Motivation-Behavior model to develop and conduct surveys and dyadic interviews with Latino men who have sex with men (LMSM) and their siblings (n = 31) and three sibling-only focus groups (n = 20). For LMSM, only n = 14 (45%) agreed they would benefit from taking PrEP, yet n = 22 (71%) would take PrEP to make their sibling worry less about them, and n = 23 (74%) requested a PrEP referral. For siblings, n = 20 (65%) believed PrEP would benefit their brother, and n = 19 (95%) in the focus groups said they would take PrEP to help their brother get started. Qualitative results include (1) siblings’ support for PrEP use, (2) explicit conversations about sex were not necessary for discussing sexual health, and (3) siblings wanted to understand what they could do to encourage their brother to consider PrEP. We conclude siblings can be engaged in PrEP promotion.

Publisher

Guilford Publications

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health (social science)

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