UTECH STUDY
Participation involves:
- Attending 4 goal-oriented virtual conversations with an interventionist about reducing problem substance use and sexual risk
- Attending 3 60-minute virtual sessions with the research team regarding your social media use, sexual behavior, substance use, and HIV/STI testing history
- Completing 2 additional online surveys
- Completing 2 free, at-home HIV/STI testing kits
If you use an Android device: you will download an app that allows researchers to passively collect information from your phone for 12 months
If you use an iOS device: you will send downloaded data from your social media sites to the research team three times during the 12-month study
You must:
- Be a cisgender man, transgender man, transgender woman, or nonbinary individual who has had sex with a man in the past 3 months
- Be a current user of social media sites for finding male partners
- Be a current user of substances (including alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, etc.)