Anna Frey, Tobias Leutritz, Joy Backhaus, Alexander Hörnlein, Sarah König
Item format statistics and readability of extended matching questions as an effective tool to assess medical students
Scientific reports
lowlevel hiv epidemic settings like singapore face challenge reaching men atrisk less contact programmes investigated patterns meeting platform use men seeking male sexual partners msm potential marker risk differentiate subgroups interventions latent class analysis lca applied survey sample msm recruited barsclubs saunas smartphone application using purposive sampling bestfit lca model identified homogeneous subgroups similar patterns meeting platform factored multivariable regression identify associations risk behaviors pathway hiv infection overall 1141 msm recruited barsclubs n 426 saunas n 531 online n 184 five patterns emerged reflecting salient platform use characteristics saunacentric sc n 413 appcentric ac n 276 multipleplatforms mp n 123 platforminactive pi n 257 hook dnh n 72 classes men sc mp classes high probabilities using saunas meet partners sc older less likely disclosed sexual orientation mp class high probabilities connecting across platforms addition saunas likely disclosed sexual orientation pi class men sc mp classes twice odds reporting multiple sex partners aorsc 21 95ci 1332 aormp 22 95ci 1146 singlenonpartnered msm using alcoholdrugs sex 17 95ci 1225 32 95ci 2051 odds respectively reporting multiple sex partners sc mp classes higher odds engaging group sex msm using alcoholdrugs sex twice odds reporting group sex alcoholdrugs group sex independently associated condomless sex lower education group sex alcoholdrugs sex disclosure sexual orientation singaporeanpermanent resident associated recent testing hiv five distinct risk profiles identified help tailor differentiated hiv interventionscombined field knowledge preventionto expand hiv selftesting preexposure prophylaxis services eg mpox vaccination subgroups risk