Network Supported Engagement In HIV Care (NSEC)

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Acceptance of Health Care; HIV

Treatments: Other: Supportive Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01726712

11-0654

1R34MH097622-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Network Supported Engagement in Care (NSEC) intervention is a brief, theory based and culturally sensitive intervention designed to capitalize on organic yet underutilized social support networks in the lives of young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) who have been recently diagnosed with HIV. The intervention has been developed with input from clients and their support network members, case managers, social workers, HIV primary care providers and pastoral care at a Federally Qualified Health Center. The goal of the intervention is to improve retention in care for newly diagnosed YBMSM who present for their first HIV primary care clinic appointment.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Index subjects

• Self-identify as African-American and male;
• same gender anal/oral sex in the past 2 years;
• English speaking;
• have at least one SC in their network;
• own a cell phone not shared with other persons;
• agreeable to text-message mini-booster sessions; and
• between the ages of 16-29 years old.

Supportive Contact:

• Index participant has agreed to including the supportive contact;
• Supportive contact is willing to attend face to face and telephone mini-booster sessions;
• 18 years of age or older;
• English speaking; and
• owns a cell phone that is not shared with other persons.

Exclusion criteria

Index Subject:

• unable to provide assent/consent;
• plan to move out of the area within the next 12 months;
• are not willing to attend intervention sessions; or
• not willing to return for assessments

Supportive Contact:

• unable to provide informed consent; or
• not willing to return for 3 and 12 month assessments.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Routine Care

No Intervention group

Supportive Contact

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Supportive Care