HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education): Using Online Social Networks for HIV Prevention and Testing

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: HIV knowledge Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01701206

K01MH090884

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study seeks to determine whether social networking technologies can be used to increase HIV prevention and testing.The HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education) model seeks to apply a diffusion of innovations style intervention to social media to increase HIV testing.

Enrollment: 558 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Has had sex with a man in the past 12 months
• Lives in Lima or Callao, Peu
• Has a Facebook account or willing to create one

Exclusion criteria

• Does not satisfy inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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558 participants in 2 patient groups

HIV intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental arm receives peer-led HIV information on social media

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIV knowledge Intervention

Control arm

No Intervention group