The EMERGE Project: Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Messages in Young Adults

Feasibility Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project: Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Messages in Homeless Young Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03237871
• Other study ID #: IRB0007563
• Secondary ID: K01MH107310
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 7, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 19, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

As part of the development of the Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project, the study team will conduct a single-group study to examine the feasibility of assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors using text messages. The team will enroll approximately 20 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are African-American, homeless, out-of-school, and un/under-employed. Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks. The study team will collect information about the number of participants who respond to the weekly survey, the number of questions to which they respond in each survey, and the number of hours from sending a survey to participants to receiving their response. As an exploratory aim, participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment. The study team will obtain qualitative feedback from participants regarding text messages they most and least liked. The survey is not designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the text message intervention.

Description:

As part of the development of the Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project, the study team will conduct a single-group study to examine the feasibility of assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors using text messages. The study team will enroll approximately 20 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are African-American, homeless, out-of-school, and un/under-employed. Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks. The study team will collect information about the number of participants who respond to the weekly survey, the number of questions to which they respond in each survey, and the number of hours from sending a survey to participants to receiving their response. As an exploratory aim, participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment. The study team will obtain qualitative feedback from participants regarding text messages they most and least liked. The survey is not designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the text message intervention. The single-group study is anticipated to start in August 2017.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 17
• Est. completion date: September 19, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: September 19, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals will be included in the study if, at the time of enrollment, they are:

• African American

• Aged 18-24

• Living in Baltimore City

• Experiencing homelessness in the past 12 months

• Employed fewer than 10 hours per week

• Not enrolled in school

• Ownership of a mobile phone with text-messaging capacity

• Reporting at least one episode of unprotected sex in prior 6 months or one other personal or sexual partner HIV risk factor within prior 6 months (STI diagnosis, sex while high or drunk, sex exchange, illicit drug use, alcohol dependence).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Aged 17 or younger.

• Older than 24 years

• Unwilling to provide consent for study participation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Feasibility

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Text-message survey and informational text messages
Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors. Participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Baltimore	Maryland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Participants Who Respond to the Survey in Week 1	Number of enrolled participants who respond to the survey in Week 1. Measure type 'number' was used for small sample size and as described in the original registration protocol.	Week 1
Primary	Mean Number of Questions to Which Participant Respond in Each Survey in Week 1	Mean number of questions to which enrolled participant respond in each survey in Week 1.	Week 1
Primary	Mean Number of Hours From Sending a Survey to Participants to Receiving Their Response in Week 1	Mean number of hours from sending a survey to enrolled participants to receiving their response in Week 1.	Week 1