Awareness, Willingness, and Perceived Efficacy of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males

Alvin Gordián-Arroyo; Robert Garofalo; Lisa M. Kuhns; Cynthia Pearson; Josh Bruce; D. Scott Batey; Asa Radix; Uri Belkind; Marco A. Hidalgo; Sabina Hirshfield; Eric W. Schrimshaw; Rebecca Schnall

doi:10.1007/s11524-020-00447-5

Awareness, Willingness, and Perceived Efficacy of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males

Alvin Gordián-Arroyo, Robert Garofalo, Lisa M. Kuhns, Cynthia Pearson, Josh Bruce, D. Scott Batey, Asa Radix, Uri Belkind, Marco A. Hidalgo, Sabina Hirshfield, Eric W. Schrimshaw, Rebecca Schnall^*

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Despite the approval of PrEP for adolescents by the FDA in 2018, little is known about the awareness and attitudes about PrEP use among adolescent sexual minority males, who are at the greatest risk for HIV. We analyzed baseline data from the MyPEEPS Mobile study, a multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile behavioral HIV prevention intervention. A substantial proportion (68.2%) of study participants (ages 13–18) had previously heard about PrEP, and an overwhelming majority (90.8%) reported willingness to take PrEP, to prevent HIV. On the other hand, only about one third (34.6%) of participants indicated that taking a daily HIV pill would be “very” or “completely” effective in preventing HIV when having sex without a condom. These findings suggest that high awareness and willingness to use PrEP across various adolescent subgroups present opportunities for increased PrEP advocacy among this young age group.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	749-757
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Urban Health
Volume	97
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00447-5
State	Published - Oct 1 2020

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Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Minority and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under award number U01MD011279. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Keywords

Adolescents
Awareness
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Perceived efficacy
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Willingness

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Health(social science)
Urban Studies
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Gordián-Arroyo, A., Garofalo, R., Kuhns, L. M., Pearson, C., Bruce, J., Batey, D. S., Radix, A., Belkind, U., Hidalgo, M. A., Hirshfield, S., Schrimshaw, E. W., & Schnall, R. (2020). Awareness, Willingness, and Perceived Efficacy of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males. Journal of Urban Health, 97(5), 749-757. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00447-5

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