Development and Piloting of a Just-in-Time, Personalized HIV Prevention Intervention for Youth Experiencing Homelessness and Unstable Housing

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior, Risk

Treatments: Behavioral: HIV; Behavioral: General health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03911024

HSC-SN-18-0501

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is develop and pilot test a personalized HIV intervention with youth experiencing homelessness by creating and field testing prevention messages that address real-time predictors (e.g., sexual urge, use to use drugs, and substance use) of HIV risk behaviors,to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and to evaluate the intervention outcome effects on HIV risk behaviors (e.g., condomless sex, number of sexual partners, pre-exposure prophylaxis(PrEP) awareness, substance use during sex,Intravenous(IV)drug use)

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking
• HIV high risk: IV drug user or sexually active youth (sex in the past 3 months) who reports at least one of the following: condomless sex, concurrent sexual partners within 2 weeks,sex with a partner of unknown HIV status, or a bacterial STI in the last 6 months.
• Homelessness: staying on the streets or in a place not meant for human habitation, a shelter,hotel/motel, or some place they cannot stay for more than 30 days

Exclusion criteria

• Below 6th grade reading level:determined by the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine Short Form (REALM)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

HIV

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIV

General Health

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: General health