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Characteristics of Latino men who have sex with men on the internet who complete and drop out of an Internet-based sexual behavior survey
World Health Organization Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston..
Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7788-2748
2004 (English)In: AIDS Education and Prevention, ISSN 0899-9546, E-ISSN 1943-2755, Vol. 16, no 6, p. 526-537Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

To identify biases and threats to validity of Internet survey data collection on HIV-related risk behaviors, we studied 1,546 Latino men who have sex with men on the Internet recruited through banner impressions on a leading national gay Internet site. The study could be completed in English or Spanish. Of those commencing, 33.6% dropped out before completing the 450-field questionnaire. None of the linguistic variables (level of use of Spanish or English) predicted dropout. However, dropouts were more likely to identify as Puerto Rican or Black, to reject the $20 compensation or offer it to a charity, to not have met men for sex on the Internet, to identify as bisexual or heterosexual, and to use Web sites or personal ads for contact and to use the Internet less at home than those who completed the study. Men in seroconcordant monogamous relationships and those who had not met a man for sex on the Internet were also more likely to drop out. These data suggest that there are no linguistic and few demographic and Internet use variables that are associated with dropout. Issues of compensation and respondent characteristics that make it likely that there will be a large number of inapplicable data fields in the questionnaire appear to be significant predictors of dropout. Although there were many data missing, the dropouts did not appear to be at greater HIV-associated risk than the completers. The fact that there appear to be few systematic demographic or Internet use biases in dropouts suggests that the completers do not represent a seriously skewed sample of those Latinos who commence the Internet survey.

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Guilford Publications, 2004. Vol. 16, no 6, p. 526-537
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Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66350DOI: 10.1521/aeap.16.6.526.53793ISI: 000226061700004PubMedID: 15585429Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-10644262721OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-66350DiVA, id: diva2:1845067
Available from: 2024-03-16 Created: 2024-03-16 Last updated: 2024-03-16Bibliographically approved
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1. Typing, doing and being: a study of men who have sex with men and sexuality on the internet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Typing, doing and being: a study of men who have sex with men and sexuality on the internet
2006 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, 2006
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Malmö University Health and Society Dissertations, ISSN 1653-5383 ; 2006:1
Keywords
MSM, sexuality, cybersex, internet samples, drop out, internet sexuality questionnaries
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Social Work
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urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7338 (URN)3129 (Local ID)91-7104-201-6 (ISBN)3129 (Archive number)3129 (OAI)
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-03-16Bibliographically approved

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