Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Cancer prevention and screening; Behavioral: BTWB intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01980771

5P20MD006875 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

5P20MD006875, subproject 5174

Details and patient eligibility

About

This program utilizes a community-engaged research approach to implementing and evaluating a program that seeks to reduce sexual risk behavior among Black adult heterosexual men. The investigators aims are to assess the impact of this linguistically and culturally tailored HIV prevention program on the sexual risk of heterosexual, African American men aged 18 and older, to assess the intervention's impact on the more proximal social and psychosocial variables that the program is designed to change, and to identify key contextual level factors that may impact the intervention's impact across segments of this priority population.

Enrollment: 860 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unprotected sex in the past three months
• Identify as Black or African American

Exclusion criteria

• Having been in an HIV prevention research study in the last six months
• Reporting a history in the past five years of injection drug use
• Reporting a history in the past five years of having sex with other men
• Reporting an HIV-positive serostatus
• Inability to understand spoken English.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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860 participants in 2 patient groups

BTWB intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or active control condition. Men recruited from experimental barbershops receive a single-session group intervention focused on HIV prevention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BTWB intervention

Cancer prevention and screening

Active Comparator group

Description:

Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or control condition. Men recruited from control barbershops receive information on cancer prevention and control.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cancer prevention and screening