The People Like Us Evaluation Study

National University of Singapore

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Care Seeking Behavior; Homosexuality; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Health Behavior; Stigma, Social; HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Behavioral: People Like Us Online Video Series Intervention; Behavioral: Sexual Health Pamphlet (Standard of Care)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04021953

S-19-059

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial design to evaluate an online video series developed by a community-based organization in Singapore for gay, bisexual and queer men.

A total of 300 HIV-negative, gay, bisexual and queer men in Singapore aged 18 to 29 years old will be recruited with the assistance of the partner community-based organization (CBO), Action for AIDS Singapore. Recruitment will utilize both online and offline channels, and with the help of other CBOs in Singapore. Participants should also not have watched the video prior to their participation in this study, which will be ascertained through a questionnaire.

Participants will subsequently be randomized into the intervention arm (n=150) and the control arm (n=150). The treatment group (n=150) will be assigned the intervention along with sexual health information via a pamphlet, while the control group (n=150) will be assigned only the sexual health information via a pamphlet. This will be conducted through block randomization.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-reported HIV-negative status, or unsure of HIV status
• Self-reported gay, bisexual or queer sexual orientation
• Self-reported male gender, regardless of sex assigned at birth
• Self-reported age of 18 to 29 years old at point of recruitment
• Singapore citizen or permanent resident at the point of recruitment
• Self-reported as never having watched an online video drama series by Gayhealth.sg or Action for AIDS in the last year

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who have watched the People Like Us Series prior to study
• Participants who have self-reported being HIV-positive
• Participants who are not English-literate
• Participants aged below 18 or above 29 at baseline recruitment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The online intervention comprises a series of six videos, each about 10-minutes in length, entitled the People Like Us series. The intervention was developed by gayhealth.sg and Action for AIDS Singapore in 2018. The series follow the love and sex lives of four ethnically-diverse GBQ men of varying socioeconomic backgrounds, as they negotiate issues of sexual health, mental health, and relationships throughout the six-part miniseries. The intervention group will also be provided with an e-pamphlet on sexual wellness catered to GBMSM. This e-pamphlet has been developed by the National Skin Centre and Department of Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic specifically for information on sexual wellness among GBMSM. It comprises segments on HIV/STI symptoms, etiology, information on how to seek help for HIV/STI, behavioral and biomedical methods of HIV prevention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sexual Health Pamphlet (Standard of Care)

Behavioral: People Like Us Online Video Series Intervention

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will be provided with an e-pamphlet on sexual wellness catered to GBMSM. This e-pamphlet has been developed by the National Skin Centre and Department of Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic specifically for information on sexual wellness among GBMSM. It comprises segments on HIV/STI symptoms, etiology, information on how to seek help for HIV/STI, behavioral and biomedical methods of HIV prevention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sexual Health Pamphlet (Standard of Care)