Mpox knowledge, risk perception, attitudes and willingness to vaccinate in Colombia's LGBTIQ+ communities: Online survey (CoSex)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In the 2022-23 global clade IIb mpox outbreak, Colombia was the sixth country with the most reported cases globally and the second in Latin America after Brazil. LGTBIQ + communities, especially those with extensive sexual networks, were particularly affected. OBJECTIVE: We aim to characterize the knowledge, risk perceptions, attitudes, and willingness to implement preventive measures against mpox among LGBTIQ + communities in Colombia. METHODS: This was an anonymized, cross-sectional, observational study based on a population-based online questionnaire using a participatory approach. RESULTS: Among the 784 participants from 66 municipalities, 49.1 % were aged 18-29 years, and 89.3 % were male and assigned at birth. A total of 73.9 % identified as homosexual, whereas 14.9 % reported never using condoms. Casual sexual partners were reported by 45.4 % of the participants in the past year (median: 3; range: 1-100), and 29.3 % engaged in group sex during the same period (median: 4; range: 2-100). Temporary behavioral changes to reduce mpox risk, such as limiting sexual partners and increasing condom use, were reported by 24.1 % of the participants. Suspected or confirmed mpox infection was reported by 4 % of the participants, with 77.4 % attributing potential exposure to sexual contact. Notably, 89.5 % expressed a willingness to receive mpox vaccination if it was offered. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrate the importance of academic and social communities' cross-collaboration to understand the impact of mpox infection in this population and as a basis for planning epidemic responses to future mpox outbreaks in Colombia and Latin America.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".