Gene Expression Outcomes in Interventions for Substance Using HIV+ Minority Men

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Inflammation

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Treatments

Behavioral: Writing tasks

Behavioral: AWARENESS for Sexual Minorities

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT03143205

K23DA039800

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot study of a new 9-session individually delivered cognitive behavioral intervention targeting sexual minority stress. In this study, 40 HIV+ men sexual minority men will be recruited for the study then will be randomly assigned to either the new 9 session intervention or a writing task condition.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

Male

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Provide evidence or documentation of HIV positive status (e.g. a letter of diagnosis or medication bottles with matched photo ID)
Be English speaking
Be able to consent
Sexual activity with a man in the 3 years prior to initial contact or identification as gay or bisexual
Not currently be enrolled in formal substance abuse treatment
Report at least one occasion of drinking 5 or more drinks or of using an illicit substance in the previous 3 months, but not meet criteria for a severe substance use disorder.

Exclusion criteria

Presence of a severe substance use disorder
Presence of current symptoms consistent with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which would indicate that an intervention targeting these symptoms would be more appropriate.