A Community-health Worker Delivered HIV/STI Prevention Intervention for Internally Displaced Women in Leogane, Haiti (FASY)

Women's College Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Mental Disorders; Risk Reduction Behavior; Interpersonal Relations

Treatments: Behavioral: individual and group-based, community health worker delivered

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01492829

GCC#0016-01-04-01-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based individual and group focused HIV/STI prevention intervention with internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti. Internally displaced women will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI prevention intervention to other internally displaced women.

Full description

We will develop and field test a multi-component intervention that includes (1) solar-powered tablets with brief video-based educational messages and (2) 6 weekly peer-group sessions. The tablet will be programmed to analyze the data and to indicate incorrect HIV knowledge responses so the community health worker can immediately provide correct responses. This intervention involves 6 weekly women's health meetings that will cover a variety of issues pertinent to women's sexual health: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, mental health and coping, creating social change.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 and over
• capable of providing informed consent
• internally displaced (living in tent or camp)
• female

Exclusion criteria

• male
• under 18 years old
• not able to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)