Mater-Bronx Rapid HIV Testing Project. (M-BRiHT)

University College Dublin

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Treatments: Other: No participant choice of counselor; Other: Participant choice of counselor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01778374

M-BRiHT

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the M-BRiHT study we aim to implement a programme of opportunistic HIV screening in the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. We hypothesize that such a programme will be acceptable in an Irish setting. We also wish to study the factors that influence test completion or acceptance. We will utilise informative interactive video media via a touch-screen tablet device to provide pre-test counselling and then offer rapid minimally invasive testing with a cotton-bud type swab of the buccal mucosa. In doing so we will to determine absolute numbers of those attending the ED who consent to watching the interactive information video about rapid HIV test screening. We will describe the absolute number and proportion of those who watch the interactive video who subsequently proceed to have the rapid HIV test. The primary aim is to determine the cultural, gender and ethnic factors which influence the completion of such rapid HIV testing with the future objective of maximising test completion in this crucial public health area.

Enrollment: 17,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adults greater than 18 years of age who present to the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Must have capacity to consent to watch an interactive video tablet device about HIV and HIV screening test.

Exclusion criteria

• HIV positive patients (known previous HIV positive patients).
• Acute intoxication in which capacity is impaired
• Critically unwell patients who require active or intensive resuscitation.
• Acute psychiatric disturbance in which capacity is impaired

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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17,000 participants in 2 patient groups

No participant choice of counselor

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with no choice of counselor. This is delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.

Treatment:

Other: No participant choice of counselor

Participant choice of counselor

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with a choice of four different counselors. These gender and ethnically diverse counselors are delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.

Treatment:

Other: Participant choice of counselor