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Paradata: Measuring Engagement in Digital HIV Interventions for Sexual and Gender Minorities
Seul Ki Choi1, Kathryn E Muessig2, Lisa B Hightow-Weidman2
1Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 418 Curie Blvd, Suite 402, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Purpose Of Review:
The goal of this review was to examine online engagement using paradata (i.e., intervention usage metrics) as part of the reporting of online behavioral HIV prevention and care interventions' findings. We underscore the importance of these data in examining intervention engagement and effectiveness.
Recent Findings:
We focused on studies indexed in PubMed and published between April 1, 2017, and June 30, 2023, that reported the development and testing of online behavioral interventions for HIV prevention and/or care. Of the 689 extracted citations, 19 met the study criteria and provided engagement data - only six studies tested the association between engagement and intervention outcomes. Of these, four studies found a positive association between participants' engagement and improvements in HIV-related outcomes. Increasing attention is being paid to the collection and reporting of paradata within HIV online behavioral interventions. While the current evidence suggests a dose-response relationship due to user engagement on HIV outcomes, greater efforts to systematically collect, report, and analyze paradata are warranted.
