Assessing the Use of MY-RIDE, a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention, to Improve HIV Prevention and Substance Use in Youth Experiencing Homelessness

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Attention-control group; Behavioral: MY-RIDE group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06074354

HSC-SN-23-0360

1R01NR020997-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Motivating Youth to Reduce Infections, Disconnections, and Emotion dysregulation (MY-RIDE) decreases substance use , to determine whether MY-RIDE increases human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention strategies and to evaluate MY-RIDE effects on willingness to take Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), stress, substance use urge, and use of mental health and substance use services when compared to attention control youth

Enrollment: 450 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have engaged in substance use (alcohol or illicit drugs)
• speak English
• are experiencing homelessness
• engaged in sexual activity in the last 6 months or plan to in the next month
• are not planning to move out of the metro area during the 15-month study period.

Exclusion criteria

• Youth Experiencing Homelessness (YEH) who have low literacy based on the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short Form (scores < 4)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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450 participants in 2 patient groups

MY-RIDE group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: MY-RIDE group

Attention-control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Attention-control group