Recruiting

HIV Prevention

Sponsor:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Code:

NCT06096324

Conditions

Economic Hardship

Condomless Sex

Utilization, Health Care

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 24

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.

Job announcements

Study Details

Brief summary:

The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the efficacy of implementing a combination intervention to improve economic stability and HIV preventive behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 500 young adults. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first group ("control") will receive text messages with information on job openings. The second group ("intervention") will receive text messages with information on job openings plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions on employment, income generation, and HIV prevention, economic resources, and mentoring.

Conditions

Economic Hardship

Condomless Sex

Utilization, Health Care

Study ID

NCT06096324

Start date

Sep 19, 2023

Status verified date

Mar, 2026

Completion date

Mar 31, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar 31, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 24

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion criteria are:

  • Aged 18-24
  • Economically-vulnerable in past 12 months
  • Sexually active in past 12 months
  • Living in Baltimore
  • Has access to mobile phone with text messaging

Exclusion criteria are:

  • Aged 17 or younger
  • Older than 24 years
  • Unwilling to provide consent for study participation

Study Design

Enrollment

500 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Intervention

Job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.

other: Control

Job announcements only

Interventions

Job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.

Participants will receive job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.

Job announcements

Participants will receive job announcements only.

Primary outcome measure

  • Mean economic stability score of participants in each group in the past six months [ Time Frame: Month 3 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD MHS

919-445-5099ljennings.mayowilson@unc.edu

Adriana Parker, MPH

919-843-9293adriana.parker@unc.edu

Locations

Johns Hopkins University

Recruiting

Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205

Contacts

Nancy Glass, PhD MPH RN

410-955-4766nglass1@jhu.edu

Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD MHS

919-445-5099ljennings.mayowilson@unc.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Last update posted

Mar 4, 2026

Last verified

Mar, 2026

Keywords

  • HIV

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on 2026-03-04.