Two WeChat Mini Program-based Interventions Reducing Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Heterosexual Male Factory Workers

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Behavior, Sex

Treatments: Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos; Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program Only

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05811611

HLPM201907020105

Details and patient eligibility

About

A non-blinded parallel group randomized controlled trial is conducted. Adult male full-time employees of factories in Shenzhen who have access to smartphone and WeChat are recruited by staff of the Longhua Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

After completing an online baseline questionnaire, participants will be randomized evenly to either the intervention group or the control group. Participants in the control group will have access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and sexually transmitted prevention information during the project period. In addition to those received by the control group, the Mini Program will proactively ask participants in the intervention group some simple questions to assess presence of sexual risk behaviors at Month 0 and Month 1, and invite them to watch online health promotion video(s) tailored to their current sexual risk behaviors.

All participants will complete two online follow-up surveys six and twelve months after completion of the interventions.

Enrollment: 244 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male at birth
• Aged 18 years or above
• Full-time employee of a factory in Shenzhen
• Having a smartphone with internet access
• Having installed or willing to install WeChat on the smartphone
• Willing to complete follow-up surveys at Month 6 and 12

Exclusion criteria

• Oral or anal sex with a man
• Blindness ot deafness
• Not able to communicate effectively with project staff
• Self-reported as HIV positive

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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244 participants in 2 patient groups

WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online promotion videos

Experimental group

Description:

1. Having access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and STI prevention information during the project period 2. The WeChat Mini Program proactively asks questions assessing sexual risk behaviors at Month 0 and Month 1, and invite participants two watch online health promotion videos tailored to their sexual risk behaviors status.

Treatment:

Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos

WeChat Mini Program Only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Having access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and STI prevention information during the project period

Treatment:

Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program Only