Community Influences Transitions in Youth Health (CITY) Health II - Center for the Study of Community Health (CH-II)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexually Transmitted Diseases; HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Entertainment education; Other: video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT04320186

150219009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this protocol is to develop and evaluate an HIV prevention Entertainment Education (EE) intervention aimed at reaching underserved, at-risk African Americans, aged 18-25 years, living in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods in the Birmingham area.

Full description

The goal of this 5 year project is to promote HIV testing and improve HIV-related risk behaviors (e.g. condom use, substance use before sex, regular Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing) via population-sensitive and population-specific HIV prevention videos that are appealing, evidence-based, scalable, and sustainable to the target population. Formative research was conducted in Phase I (Year 1-2), to pre-test the questionnaire and gather in-depth data (via focus groups, intercept interviews, and individual structured interviews) to inform intervention development. Phase 2 of the project involved developing, delivering, and subsequently evaluating the efficacy of peer-driven EE HIV prevention messaging to broader social networks via a social media platform, with the platform contingent on formative data. An HIV education video series, "The Beat HIVe", was produced and served as intervention materials for the quasi-experimental research project. Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) was used to access and use the social networks of high-risk youths as channel and agents for change. RDS is a recent innovative adaptation of chain-referral network sampling that provides peer-driven access to hard-to-reach subpopulations while reducing sampling biases associated with conventional snowball sampling.

Enrollment: 334 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

African American young adults Aged 18-25 Living in the Birmingham USA Competent to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Obvious psychosis, dementia, inability to hear. Plan to move within the next 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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334 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants viewed informational video content plus entertainment content

Treatment:

Other: video

Behavioral: Entertainment education

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants viewed entertainment content only

Treatment:

Behavioral: Entertainment education