title: Willingness to Take a Free Home HIV Test and Associated Factors among Internet-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Online HIV prevention studies have been limited in their ability to obtain biological specimens to measure study outcomes. We describe factors associated with willingness of men who have sex with men (MSM) to take a free home HIV test as part of an online HIV prevention study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Between March and April 2009, we interviewed 6163 HIV-negative MSM and assessed the willingness to test for HIV infection using a home collection kit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Men reported being very likely (3833; 62%) or likely (1236; 20%) to accept a home HIV test as part of an online HIV prevention study. The odds of being willing to home test were higher for men who were offered incentives of $10 or $25, were black, had unprotected anal intercourse in the past 12 months, and were unaware of their HIV status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Home testing offered as part of online HIV prevention research is acceptable overall and in important subgroups of high-risk MSM.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Akshay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Patrick S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Christine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Khosropour
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D012747:Sexual Partners