eprintid: 10188205
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datestamp: 2024-03-01 09:40:30
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creators_name: Kocur, Will
creators_name: McLeod, Julie
creators_name: Bloch, Sonja Charlotte Margot
creators_name: MacDonald, Jennifer J
creators_name: Woodward, Charlotte
creators_name: McInnes-Dean, Amelia
creators_name: Gibbs, Jo J
creators_name: Saunders, John J
creators_name: Blandford, Ann A
creators_name: Estcourt, Claudia
creators_name: Flowers, Paul
title: Improving digital partner notification for sexually transmitted infections and HIV through a systematic review and application of the Behaviour Change Wheel approach
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: D01
keywords: behaviour, Behaviour Change Wheel, community interventions, contact tracing, health
promotion, health services, interventions, LGBT, men who have sex with men, partner notification,
psychology, public health, STIs.
note: © 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY)
abstract: Background   Partner notification (PN) is key to controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Digital PN options (e.g. social media, short message service (SMS), emails) are promising in increasing PN behaviour. However, their implementation is often challenging and studies report varied levels of acceptability and uptake of PN, highlighting the need to optimise digital PN interventions.     Methods   A systematic review of barriers and facilitators to digital PN interventions for STIs, including HIV, across eight research databases (from 2010 to 2023) identified eight relevant studies, two of which addressed HIV. Data extraction identified 98 barriers and 54 facilitators to the use of digital PN interventions. These were synthesised into 18 key barriers and 17 key facilitators that were each deemed amenable to change. We then used the Behaviour Change Wheel approach, the Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Affordability, Side-effects and Equity criteria, and multidisciplinary expert input, to systematically develop practical recommendations to optimise digital PN.     Results   Thirty-two specific recommendations clustered around three themes. Digital PN interventions should: (1) empower and support the index patient by providing a range of notification options, accompanied by clear instructions; (2) integrate into users’ existing habits and the digital landscape, meeting contemporary standards and expectations of usability; and (3) address the social context of PN both online and offline through normalising the act of PN, combating STI-related stigma and stressing the altruistic aspects of PN through consistent messaging to service users and the public.     Conclusions   Our evidence-based recommendations should be used to optimise existing digital PN interventions and inform the co-production of new ones.
date: 2024-02-26
date_type: published
publisher: CSIRO Publishing
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh23168
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2252756
doi: 10.1071/sh23168
lyricists_name: McInnes-Dean, Amelia
lyricists_id: AMCIN14
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sexual Health
volume: 21
number: 2
issn: 1448-5028
editors_name: Hogben, Matthew
citation:        Kocur, Will;    McLeod, Julie;    Bloch, Sonja Charlotte Margot;    MacDonald, Jennifer J;    Woodward, Charlotte;    McInnes-Dean, Amelia;    Gibbs, Jo J;                 ... Flowers, Paul; + view all <#>        Kocur, Will;  McLeod, Julie;  Bloch, Sonja Charlotte Margot;  MacDonald, Jennifer J;  Woodward, Charlotte;  McInnes-Dean, Amelia;  Gibbs, Jo J;  Saunders, John J;  Blandford, Ann A;  Estcourt, Claudia;  Flowers, Paul;   - view fewer <#>    (2024)    Improving digital partner notification for sexually transmitted infections and HIV through a systematic review and application of the Behaviour Change Wheel approach.                   Sexual Health , 21  (2)      10.1071/sh23168 <https://doi.org/10.1071/sh23168>.       Green open access   
 
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