Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing (FIT)

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Financial incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03049917

323-NJU-TRIAL (Other Grant/Funding Number)

STUDY00000599

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving small financial incentives will motivate parents to test their children for HIV.

Full description

The study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 5 arms with equal allocation to each arm: no incentive, or one of 4 different levels of financial incentive. We will randomize 800 parents with children of unknown status at HIV treatment clinics in Western Kenya.

Enrollment: 452 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parent/caregiver receiving HIV care
• Parent/caregiver has one or more children <13 years old
• Child is HIV exposed (parent/caregiver report or clinic confirmation)
• Caregiver reports child's HIV status is unknown

Exclusion criteria

• None

  • The investigators reserve the right to exclude any potential enrollee who is deemed to be at high personal risk, or whose children are at high personal risk, of interpersonal violence, by study participation .

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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452 participants in 5 patient groups

No incentive

No Intervention group

Description:

No incentive

KES financial incentive 1

Experimental group

Description:

Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial incentive

KES financial incentive 2

Experimental group

Description:

Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial incentive

KES financial incentive 3

Experimental group

Description:

Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial incentive

KES financial incentive 4

Experimental group

Description:

Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial incentive