Digital Health and AI Chatbots to Promote Sexual and Reproductive Health Among LBQ+ Women of Color

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 Aug 7:329:2092-2093. doi: 10.3233/SHTI251365.

Abstract

This study investigated the acceptability of using digital health, including telemedicine (e.g., video calls on a computer or smartphone), mHealth (a mobile app, text messaging, and social media messages), and artificial intelligence-enabled chatbots to communicate health information and facilitate access and uptake of sexual and reproductive healthcare among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women of color (WOC) in the United States.

Keywords: Digital health; artificial intelligence; chatbots; health equity; sexual health.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Digital Health
  • Female
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • Health Promotion* / methods
  • Humans
  • Mobile Applications
  • Reproductive Health* / ethnology
  • Reproductive Health* / statistics & numerical data
  • Sexual Health* / ethnology
  • Sexual Health* / statistics & numerical data
  • Sexual and Gender Minorities* / statistics & numerical data
  • Telemedicine* / statistics & numerical data
  • United States