Use of cognitive interviews to develop PrEP education for men in New York and Alabama.
Maeve Brin, Emma Sophia Kay, Asa Radix and 8 others
PMID 40554090WHAT IT FOUND
Young gay and bisexual men found two HIV prevention videos useful but wanted simpler terms, cost and access details, and more inclusive images.
The videos were not tested as effective education.
Key findings
01Participants said the training was useful for starting PrEP or switching regimens.
02The most common suggestion for improving the videos was adding information about cost and access.
03Technical terms including MSM, off-label, F/TDF, F/TAF, RNA/NAT, and event-driven PrEP caused confusion for some participants.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited by convenience sampling from people who had already taken part in HIV prevention research, so they likely already knew about PrEP. Only 3 participants were from Alabama and 27 were from the New York City area, so the feedback was mostly from the Northeast. The sample was too small to compare regions, age, race, or current versus former PrEP users. The study measured perceptions of the videos, not knowledge, PrEP uptake, adherence, or persistence. The largest group identified as White, which the authors note limited the feedback on diverse racial and ethnic representation. All participants were cisgender men, so the interviews did not capture transgender people’s views.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the PrEP training videos work. The study only asked 30 men to give feedback on the videos; it did not measure knowledge, PrEP uptake, adherence, or persistence.