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View article: A qualitative exploration of barriers to, and interventions to improve, chlamydia retesting in England using the behaviour change wheel
A qualitative exploration of barriers to, and interventions to improve, chlamydia retesting in England using the behaviour change wheel Open
Background Chlamydia is the most diagnosed STI among young people in England. Repeat infections are common, and the risk of complications from chlamydia increase with the number of lifetime infections. National guidelines recommend re-test…
View article: ‘It does fill me with a bit of unease’: a qualitative study of the acceptability, facilitators and barriers to reducing the frequency of screening for asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
‘It does fill me with a bit of unease’: a qualitative study of the acceptability, facilitators and barriers to reducing the frequency of screening for asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men Open
Objectives The study aimed to explore the acceptability of reducing the frequency of asymptomatic Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) screening among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM)(Although…
View article: Exploring the Potential of a Digital Intervention to Enhance Couple Relationships (the Paired App): Mixed Methods Evaluation
Exploring the Potential of a Digital Intervention to Enhance Couple Relationships (the Paired App): Mixed Methods Evaluation Open
Background Despite the effects of poor relationship quality on individuals’, couples’, and families’ well-being, help seeking often does not occur until problems arise. Digital interventions may lower barriers to engagement with preventive…
View article: <i>One way or another, you are not going to fit</i>: trans and gender diverse people’s perspectives on sexual health services in the United Kingdom
<i>One way or another, you are not going to fit</i>: trans and gender diverse people’s perspectives on sexual health services in the United Kingdom Open
Objectives Trans and/or gender diverse (T/GD) people in the UK are less likely to access sexual health services (SHS) than cisgender people and are more likely to report negative experiences. The British Association for Sexual Health and H…
View article: <i>One way or another, you’re not going to fit</i>: Trans and gender diverse people’s perspectives on sexual health services in the United Kingdom
<i>One way or another, you’re not going to fit</i>: Trans and gender diverse people’s perspectives on sexual health services in the United Kingdom Open
Objectives Trans and/or gender diverse (T/GD) people in the UK are less likely to access sexual health services (SHS) than cisgender people but are more likely to report negative experiences. The British Association for Sexual Health and H…
View article: Configuring the digital relationship landscape: a feminist new materialist analysis of a couple relationship app
Configuring the digital relationship landscape: a feminist new materialist analysis of a couple relationship app Open
Digital technologies play an increasing role in intimate couple relationships, prompting new approaches to better understand the contemporary digital relationship landscape. This article uses feminist new materialist assemblage thinking to…
View article: Exploring the Potential of a Digital Intervention to Enhance Couple Relationships (the Paired App): Mixed Methods Evaluation (Preprint)
Exploring the Potential of a Digital Intervention to Enhance Couple Relationships (the Paired App): Mixed Methods Evaluation (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Despite the effects of poor relationship quality on individuals’, couples’, and families’ well-being, help seeking often does not occur until problems arise. Digital interventions may lower barriers to engagement with preventiv…
View article: More–than–relationship quality: A feminist new materialist analysis of relationship quality and the potential of digital couple interventions
More–than–relationship quality: A feminist new materialist analysis of relationship quality and the potential of digital couple interventions Open
Long‐established studies and scales have advanced understandings of family function, marital satisfaction, and couple relationship quality. The underpinning constructs nevertheless remain under‐conceptualized and largely removed from the h…
View article: Relatively normal? Navigating emergent sensitivity in generating and analysing accounts of ‘normality’
Relatively normal? Navigating emergent sensitivity in generating and analysing accounts of ‘normality’ Open
This article describes methodological and ethical issues associated with examining discourses of 'normality' in the context of the normalisation of HIV and relationships. It considers how sensitivity was anticipated, encountered and manage…
View article: Doing serodiscordant intimacy in the era of HIV biomedicalisation: A qualitative investigation of the lived experience of gay and bisexual men in serodiscordant relationships in the UK
Doing serodiscordant intimacy in the era of HIV biomedicalisation: A qualitative investigation of the lived experience of gay and bisexual men in serodiscordant relationships in the UK Open
HIV ‘treatment as prevention’ (TasP) is a biomedical concept in which antiretroviral drugs are deployed to prevent HIV transmission. TasP originated as an epidemiological concept created in order to tackle the HIV pandemic but is expected …