Recruiting

PrEP & TasP

Sponsor:

Brown University

Code:

NCT03404531

Conditions

HIV Infections

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Male

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Social Media Messages Intervention Group

Website Only Group

Study Details

Brief summary:

This project has the potential to improve the implementation science of treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake as a public health strategy for reducing new HIV infections in the United States. The investigators will develop and pilot test an intervention that combines messages sent over social media plus a newly developed interactive website specifically developed by and for Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino MSM to encourage treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis use. Findings from this research can guide policy guidelines and recommendations for treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake for high-risk groups.

Conditions

HIV Infections

Study ID

NCT03404531

Start date

Nov 10, 2017

Status verified date

Jul, 2020

Completion date

Apr 30, 2021

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr 30, 2021

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: Male

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged 18 or older 2. Biological male 3. Black/African American or Hispanic/Latino 4. History of condomless receptive or insertive anal intercourse with other men in the past 6 months 5. Currently using or have access and willingness to use social media over the next 6 months 6. Self-identify as HIV-negative or HIV-positive at enrollment 7. Self-identify as not being on HIV treatment (antiretroviral therapy or pre-exposure prophylaxis) or in HIV care at enrollment 8. Able to give informed consent

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Exclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals who are intoxicated
2. Individuals report being coerced to participate

Study Design

Enrollment

164 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Social Media Messages Intervention Group

Participants randomized to this condition will have access to a newly developed, culturally-tailored interactive website and theoretically-grounded social media messages.

active comparator: Website Only Group

Participants randomized to this condition will have access to a newly developed, culturally-tailored interactive website only.

Interventions

Social Media Messages Intervention Group

The Social Media Messages Intervention Group will receive theoretically-grounded messages through social media in order to encourage participants to regularly access the newly developed, culturally-tailored website that includes information about treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Website Only Group

The Website Only group will have access to the newly developed, culturally-tailored website but will not receive social media messages.

Primary outcome measure

  • treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake [ Time Frame: 6 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jacob J. van den Berg, PhD

401-863-7566jacob_vandenberg@brown.edu

Don Operario, PhD

401-863-6657don_operario@brown.edu

Locations

Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies

Recruiting

Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02912

Contacts

Jacob J. van den Berg, PhD

401-863-7566jacob_vandenberg@brown.edu

Don Operario, PhD

401-863-6657don_operario@brown.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Brown University

Last update posted

Jul 8, 2020

Last verified

Jul, 2020

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Brown University on 2020-07-08.