Hispanic Men Building Respect Education and Safety/ HoMBRES Manteniendo Respeto, Educacion y Seguridad.

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Domestic Violence; Substance Abuse; HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Behavioral: Diabetes Prevention Intervention; Behavioral: Families Talking Together (FTT); Behavioral: HoMBReS intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03730987

20170769

U54MD002266 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall objective of this project is to adapt and enhance HoMBReS (Hispanic Men Building Respect, Education, and Safety within Families /Hombres Manteniendo Respeto, Educacion y Seguridad de Familia), a Center for Disease Control (CDC)-identified best-evidence HIV behavioral intervention designed to reduce substance abuse, family violence, and HIV/AIDS (SAVA) among sexually active heterosexual Latino seasonal farmworkers (LSFWs) in rural areas.

Full description

The HoMBRES de Familia project study (HoMBRES) examined the efficacy of a culturally adapted group intervention program with fathers from a seasonal farm working community and an Urban community in South Florida. The HoMBRES intervention study adapted and tested the efficacy of an intervention that can be adopted, implemented, and sustained with Latino fathers who live or work in the farm industry, construction, services, self employed or any other work industry in the semi-rural areas and urban areas of Miami Dade County. The HoMBRES intervention seeked to reduce risk for the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and HIV/AIDS infection) syndemic among this group of men and their adolescent sons.

The intervention HoMBRES consisted of four sessions remotely facilitated via a well-tested video platform accessible by a link sent to the participants' telephone, computer, tablet or IPad (approximately 1.5 hours each session). Staff scheduled the times when participants will watch the videotaped sessions in order to be available for their questions. Intervention videos were followed up with a telephone call to discuss presentation and respond to any questions participants may have had about the sessions and clarify (if needed) the material covered in the videos via telephone. Video sessions were completed within two weeks time period. Participants in the control group received one single video on diabetes prevention. Both groups were followed up six months post baseline interview.

Enrollment: 244 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• male
• adults (age 18 or above)
• living in semirural and urban areas of Miami Dade
• Latino
• understand and speaks Spanish
• has an eligible son ( 11-17 years old)

Exclusion criteria

• father does not provide consent and permission for his son
• son does not provide assent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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244 participants in 4 patient groups

HoMBRES Intervention Group - Father

Experimental group

Description:

Four sessions (2 sessions per week, approximately 1.5 hours each) with the fathers, in which facilitators conduct educational sessions; During the period of social distancing, interventions were remotely facilitated via a well-tested video platform accessible by a link sent to the participants' telephone, computer, tablet or IPad (approximately 1.5 hours each session. Intervention videos were followed up with a telephone call to respond to any questions participants may have had about the sessions and clarify (if needed) the material covered in the videos via telephone or videoconferences. Only fathers were included in this group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HoMBReS intervention

Behavioral: Families Talking Together (FTT)

Diabetes Prevention Intervention Group - Father

Active Comparator group

Description:

One session of 1.5 hours held once per week. Session content will focus on the importance of physical activity, healthy eating, and maintaining a healthy weight. Only fathers were included in this group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Diabetes Prevention Intervention

HoMBRES Intervention Group - Adolescent

No Intervention group

Description:

The adolescent received no intervention.

Diabetes Prevention Intervention Group - Adolescent

No Intervention group

Description:

The adolescent received no intervention.