• Preventive medicine · Oct 2022

    Patient sexuality disclosure experience and associations with clinical sexual health outcomes among HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Mexico.

    • Angel B Algarin, John Mark Wiginton, Travis H Sanchez, Mauricio Hernandez-Avila, Ricardo Baruch-Dominguez, and Laramie R Smith.
    • Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. Electronic address: aalgarin@health.ucsd.edu.
    • Prev Med. 2022 Oct 1; 163: 107225107225.

    AbstractMany men who have sex with men (MSM) do not disclose their sexuality to their healthcare provider, despite potential health benefits. Data from the 2017 Encuesta de Sexo Entre Hombres online survey of 13,277 HIV-negative or unknown status MSM in Mexico were used to explore MSM patients' sexuality disclosure experience on sexual health outcomes using multivariable Poisson models with robust variance estimation to estimate adjusted prevalence ratios (aPR). Sexual health outcomes included Hepatitis B (HepB) and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, and lifetime and past year HIV testing. Overall, 53.9% (n/N) disclosed their sexuality to their healthcare provider, and of those 6.4%, 62.9%, and 30.7% reported a negative, neutral, or positive disclosure experience, respectively. In comparison to no disclosure, neutral and positive disclosure experiences were associated with HepB vaccination (aPR[95% Confidence Interval (95% CI)] = 1.17[1.09, 1.25], p < 0.001; aPR[95% CI] = 1.35[1.25, 1.46], p < 0.001, respectively) and positive disclosure experiences were associated with HPV vaccination (aPR[95% CI] = 1.46[1.24, 1.71], p < 0.001). Those who disclosed their sexual behavior were more likely than those who did not disclose their sexual behavior to have received an HIV test in their lifetime (negative: aPR[95% CI] = 1.51[1.43, 1.60], p < 0.001; neutral: aPR[95% CI] = 1.61[1.56, 1.66], p < 0.001; positive: aPR[95% CI] = 1.64[1.58, 1.69], p < 0.001) and an HIV test in the past year (negative: aPR[95% CI] = 1.89[1.70, 2.10], p < 0.001; neutral: aPR[95% CI] = 2.09[1.98, 2.20], p < 0.001; positive: aPR[95% CI] = 2.24[2.12, 2.37], p < 0.001). There is a need to implement trainings for healthcare providers that focus on sexual health risk assessments and creating a space that encourages MSM patients and healthcare providers to discuss sexual health.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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