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. 2020 Nov:35:100356.
doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2020.100356. Epub 2020 Jun 21.

Assessment of spatial mobility among young men who have sex with men within and across high HIV prevalence neighborhoods in New York city: The P18 neighborhood study

Dustin T Duncan  1 , Seann D Regan  2 , Su Hyun Park  2 , William C Goedel  2 , Byoungjun Kim  2 , Staci C Barton  3 , Perry N Halkitis  3 , Basile Chaix  4
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Assessment of spatial mobility among young men who have sex with men within and across high HIV prevalence neighborhoods in New York city: The P18 neighborhood study

Dustin T Duncan et al. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine and quantify spatial mobility among HIV-negative young men who have sex with men (YMSM) within and across high prevalence HIV neighborhoods in New York City (NYC). We completed an analysis with global positioning system (GPS) and survey data to quantify spatial mobility for participants enrolled in the P18 Neighborhood Study (analytic n = 211; 83.4%). Spatial mobility was documented with self-reported survey data and objective GPS data, which was uncorrelated. Nearly one-quarter of participants (26.1%) said that they consider the neighborhood in which they currently live to differ from the neighborhood in which they had sex most frequently. In addition, 62.9% of participants' GPS points were recorded in NYC ZIP Code Tabulation Areas within the highest quartile of HIV prevalence. Future studies of YMSM populations should be conducted to examine how environments beyond the residential neighborhood can influence sexual health, which may guide HIV prevention services.

Keywords: Geography; Global positioning system (gps) technology; HIV prevention; Men who have sex with men (msm); Neighborhoods; Spatial epidemiology; Spatial mobility; Spatial polygamy.

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HIV Prevalence Rates across ZIP codes in NYC, along with the participants’ residential street network buffers and GPS-based activity space buffers, The P18 Neighborhood Study (N = 211).
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