服务用户使用基于互联网的性传播感染 (STIs) 测试的经验:一项定性研究
Tommer Spence1, Frances Griffiths2, Jonathan Ross3
1Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, UCL, London, UK tommer.spence@ucl.ac.uk.
Sexually transmitted infections
|May 31, 2024
概括
基于互联网的性传播感染测试是方便和私人的,但用户对血液采样准确性和获得建议的担忧需要解决. 改善这些方面可以提高这些重要的公共卫生服务的采用率和回报率.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 数字健康数字健康
- 传染病控制和控制传染病
背景情况:
- 高收入国家越来越多地使用基于互联网的性传播感染 (STIs) 测试,现在占英格兰国家克拉米迪亚查计划测试的44%.
- 尽管增长迅速,但对用户体验的数据有限,这可能解释了高发病率人群的低吸收率和回归率.
研究的目的:
- 与传统的诊所服务相比,探索用户对基于互联网的STI测试的体验和看法.
- 识别影响STI查数字健康解决方案的采用和满意度的因素.
主要方法:
- 从性健康诊所和基于互联网的测试服务网站招募的17名参与者进行了半结构化采访.
- 有目的的抽样确保了性别,性取向和种族的多样性.
- 专题分析应用于采访数据,探索对在线和临床测试的看法.
主要成果:
- 基于互联网的测试因隐私和方便而受到青,尽管手指刺伤血液采样带来了挑战,这引起了一些用户对结果准确性的担忧.
- 少数人错过了与临床测试人员进行症状讨论的直接互动.
- 通过短信服务 (SMS) 接收测试结果被绝大多数人认为是可以接受和可取的.
结论:
- 基于互联网的性病检测通常被看作是积极的,隐私和方便是关键优势.
- 解决用户对血液采样准确性的担忧,并提供专家建议至关重要,以改善吸收.
- 强调自取样套件的准确性可以进一步提高这些数字健康服务的吸引力和有效性.
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