Rewarding Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention and Control in Tanzania (RESPECT)

University of California (UC), Berkeley

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Treatments: Behavioral: Cash reward

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00922038

025202

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project evaluates the effect of a combined economic and psycho-social intervention to reduce risky sexual activity and its consequences. The main hypothesis to be tested is that risky sexual activity and resulting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can be reduced through an intervention of counseling, regular STI testing, and positive reinforcement using cash rewards. The intervention is being implemented in a population of young people in rural Tanzania where more conventional behavioral change interventions have had limited effect in battling a generalized HIV epidemic.

Enrollment: 2,411 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Plan to live in study area for next 12 months

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,411 participants in 3 patient groups

High reward

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cash reward

Low reward

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cash reward

Control

No Intervention group