Mapping the current knowledge in syndemic research applied to men who have sex with men: A scoping review.

HIV/AIDS; Men who have sex with men; Mental health; Public health; Scoping review; Syndemic; Depression/epidemiology; Homosexuality, Male; Humans; Male; Reproducibility of Results; Sexual Behavior; Unsafe Sex; HIV Infections/epidemiology; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Depression; HIV Infections; Health (social science); History and Philosophy of Science

Abstract :

[en] Men who have sex with Men (MSM) represent a population affected by numerous health conditions. Syndemic theory has been used as a framework to study the health of MSM for nearly 20 years. However, the literature is plagued by a lack of consensus regarding what constitutes a synergy in a syndemic and recent reviews have shown that most of the papers published thus far have failed to demonstrate a synergy nor describe the bio-social interaction needed to account for a true syndemic. Moreover, to our knowledge, none of the existing reviews have focused specifically on MSM. This scoping review aims to fill this gap by mapping in detail how syndemic research on MSM has been conducted. A systematic database search was conducted between 2020 and 2021 and 115 studies were included. Our findings showed a lack of diversity regarding the location, design, subpopulation, and outcomes studied. In addition, the syndemic conditions, as well as their measurement, were not focused enough to ensure the robustness and reproducibility of the findings. Furthermore, our results support previous reviews showing a lack of empirical data to support disease interaction in syndemic research applied to MSM. Our review offers some important recommendations to help move the field forward in future work and describes some promising methodological advances.

Disciplines :

Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Ouafik, Maxence ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Soins primaires et santé

Buret, Laetitia ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Soins primaires et santé

Scholtes, Béatrice ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Médecine générale

Language :

English

Title :

Mapping the current knowledge in syndemic research applied to men who have sex with men: A scoping review.

Publication date :

August 2022

Journal title :

Social Science and Medicine

ISSN :

0277-9536

eISSN :

1873-5347

Publisher :

Elsevier Ltd, England

Volume :

306

Pages :

115162

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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