Effect of Social Media Support and Financial Incentives on PrEP Adherence

George Washington University (GW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

Treatments: Behavioral: Social Media Group; Behavioral: Financial Incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03078153

111642

1P30AI117970 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if social media support and financial incentives improve adherence to Truvada as PrEP in African American, Latino and Asian MSM aged 18 to 24 living in the Washington, DC area who are at high risk for HIV acquisition.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male assigned at birth (regardless of current gender identity)
• Age 18-24
• Black/African American, Latino or Asian
• HIV negative
• History of unprotected anal sex with a man in the last 6 months
• Living within the DC metropolitan statistical area and anticipate remaining within the DC area for the next 6 months
• Not enrolled in any other HIV prevention trial
• Interested in taking PrEP
• Not a current PrEP user and have not taken PrEP in the last 30 days
• Able to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Female sex at birth
• Age younger than 18 or older than 24
• Caucasian
• HIV positive
• Actively taking PrEP or having taken PrEP within 30 days of enrollment
• Chronic hepatitis B infection
• Known renal insufficiency
• On probation or parole
• Any other conditions that the Principal Investigator may consider a contraindication to enrolling in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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57 participants in 3 patient groups

Financial Incentive

Experimental group

Description:

Provided financial incentive at 3-month and 6-month follow-up visits

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Incentive

Social Media Group

Experimental group

Description:

Provided social media support through a facebook group for 6 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social Media Group

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention