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Crowdsourcing to promote HIV testing among MSM in China: study protocol for a stepped wedge randomized controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in Trials, October 2017
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Title
Crowdsourcing to promote HIV testing among MSM in China: study protocol for a stepped wedge randomized controlled trial
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Trials, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13063-017-2183-1
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Joseph D. Tucker

Abstract

HIV testing for marginalized populations is critical to controlling the HIV epidemic. However, the HIV testing rate among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China remains low. Crowdsourcing, the process of shifting individual tasks to a group, has been increasingly adopted in public health programs and may be a useful tool for spurring innovation in HIV testing campaigns. We designed a multi-site study to develop a crowdsourced HIV test promotion campaign and evaluate its effectiveness against conventional campaigns among MSM in China. This study will use an adaptation of the stepped wedge, randomized controlled trial design. A total of eight major metropolitan cities in China will be randomized to sequentially initiate interventions at 3-month intervals. The intervention uses crowdsourcing at multiple steps to sustain crowd contribution. Approximately 1280 MSM, who are 16 years of age or over, live in the intervention city, have not been tested for HIV in the past 3 months, and are not living with HIV, will be recruited. Recruitment will take place through banner advertisements on a large gay dating app along with other social media platforms. Participants will complete one follow-up survey every 3 months for 12 months to evaluate their HIV testing uptake in the past 3 months and secondary outcomes including syphilis testing, sex without condoms, community engagement, testing stigma, and other related outcomes. MSM HIV testing rates remain poor in China. Innovative methods to promote HIV testing are urgently needed. With a large-scale, stepped wedge, randomized controlled trial our study can improve understanding of crowdsourcing's long-term effectiveness in public health campaigns, expand HIV testing coverage among a key population, and inform intervention design in related public health fields. ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02796963 . Registered on 23 May 2016.

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Unknown 195 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 24 12%
Student > Bachelor 24 12%
Student > Master 22 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 6%
Other 28 14%
Unknown 65 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 17%
Social Sciences 25 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 8%
Psychology 12 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Other 31 16%
Unknown 70 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 11 July 2018.
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#6,691,726
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#557
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#96,685
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Outputs of similar age from Trials
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