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Increasing HIV Testing in Urban Emergency Departments Via Mobile Technology

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National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Status

Unknown

Conditions

HIV Testing

Treatments

Behavioral: video: choice of video
Behavioral: video: physician
Behavioral: video: community member

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02154802
1R34DA037129-01A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Because people with undiagnosed HIV will not receive treatment and may unknowingly infect others, the investigators propose a mobile computer-based video intervention to increase HIV test rates in high volume urban hospital emergency departments (EDs). EDs offer important points of contact for many of those at greatest risk for HIV. Unfortunately, when ED patients are offered routine HIV testing, most decline. Our proposed intervention builds upon initial findings from a trial our research team conducted with patients who declined HIV testing. The intervention, grounded in the Information-Motivation and Behavioral Skills model (IMB), showed an onscreen physician explaining the importance of HIV testing (to build knowledge and motivation) and modeling a rapid HIV test (to increase motivation and behavioral skill). This brief intervention had a potent effect: a third accepted HIV testing post-intervention. While this preliminary study is highly encouraging, it revealed a number of other critical research questions. First, it remains unclear what intervention component most strongly contributed to patients' decisions to test: the video content or the offer of an HIV test by a computer rather than a person. Second, consistent with the literature, participants indicated a community member disclosing positive HIV status onscreen would increase the proportion of patients who test. Third, results suggest there is individual variation in the extent to which behavior is more strongly influenced by onscreen community members or experts (e.g. physicians). Therefore, the goal of the present study, guided by the IMB model, is to determine how the investigators can refine mobile computer-based interventions to maximize HIV testing rates among patients who initially decline to test in the ED. At the end of the computerized intervention, onscreen text will ask patients if they would agree to an HIV test. Those who agree will be tested by ED staff. The study's endpoint will be post-intervention HIV test rates. The investigators' study will inform scalable interventions for underserved populations nationwide.

Enrollment

300 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18 or over
  • Capable of providing informed consent
  • Reads English
  • Declined HIV test offered by hospital staf at triage

Exclusion criteria

  • intoxicated
  • a prisoner
  • known to be HIV positive
  • presenting to the hospital for a psychiatric problem

Trial design

300 participants in 4 patient groups

video: community member
Experimental group
Description:
Participant watches video of a community member
Treatment:
Behavioral: video: community member
video: physician
Experimental group
Description:
Participant watches video of a physician
Treatment:
Behavioral: video: physician
video: choice of video
Experimental group
Description:
Participant can choose to watch video of either the community member of the physician
Treatment:
Behavioral: video: choice of video
no video
No Intervention group

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Lisa Bernhard; Ian D Aronson, Ph.D.

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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