Using HIV Risk Assessment Tool to Promote HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (online-RASSL)

National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Social Media; HIV Infections; HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Behavioral: placebo control; Behavioral: HIV risk behavior assessment; Behavioral: HIV risk assessment and tailored suggestions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03320239

risk assessment

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a HIV risk assessment tool to promote HIV testing and to reduce high risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM). It hypothesizes that the social media-based HIV risk assessment tool can increase 20% HIV testing proportion during the six months follow-up period.

Enrollment: 4,500 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male at birth.
• Having had homo-sexual behaviors (anal/oral) in the past 6 months before enrollment.
• An age of 18 years or older.
• Living in Beijing, China.
• Self-reporting HIV negative or unknown.
• Willingly participating into the baseline survey and the six months follow ups.
• Agreeing not to share the research link to others.
• Owning a mobile phone and having had downloaded the social networking Application Blued before enrollment.

Exclusion criteria

• Not accepting blood sampling within the study period.
• Reporting injecting drugs use in the past six months before enrollment.
• Being currently involved in other HIV behavioral interventions for MSM.
• Having a specific plan to leave from Beijing in the next 6 months.
• Self-reporting female.
• Other reasons the investigators deem make participation either detrimental to the participants or the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4,500 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

the online-RASSL intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

HIV risk assessment and tailored suggestions, free HIV testing link

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIV risk assessment and tailored suggestions

intervention group 2

Experimental group

Description:

HIV risk behavior investigation and routine education

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIV risk behavior assessment

the control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The placebo control: HIV/AIDS knowledge assessment, routine education

Treatment:

Behavioral: placebo control