Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing Pilot Study (FIT-Pilot)

HIV Clinical Trial

— FIT-Pilot  

Official title:

Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02931422
• Other study ID #: 50526-J
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 7, 2016
• Last updated: February 2, 2017
• Start date: September 2016
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: University of Washington
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and costs of a financial incentive intervention to motivate pediatric HIV testing in Western Kenya. The study will evaluate 3 cash incentive values and determine percent uptake of testing. A post-test questionnaire will explore parental satisfaction, mechanisms of incentive effectiveness and the impact of testing on emotional health and pediatric healthcare utilization.

Description:

The study will be a randomized trial with 3 arms (1:1:1 allocation) with small, medium, and large cash incentive. The investigators will randomize 60 parents with children of unknown status at Kisumu County Hospital in Western Kenya.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent/caregiver receiving HIV care

• Parent/caregiver is female

• Parent/caregiver has one or more children <13 years old

• Child is HIV exposed (parent/caregiver report or clinic confirmation)

• Caregiver reports child's HIV status is unknown

Exclusion Criteria:

*The investigators reserve the right to exclude any potential enrollee who is deemed to be a high personal risk, or whose children are at high personal risk, of interpersonal violence, by study participation.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Financial incentive
Conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kenya	Kisumu County Hospital	Kisumu

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Washington	Kenyatta National Hospital, University of Nairobi

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kenya, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	HIV testing	% of parents completing pediatric HIV testing within 2 months will be compared between arms.	Testing within 2 months of recruitment
Secondary	Parental satisfaction with incentives	A post-test questionnaire will assess parental satisfaction with the incentive, including the value provided, other preferred formats (vouchers, agricultural items, etc)	2 months of recruitment
Secondary	Motivational mechanism	A post-test questionnaire will assess mechanisms by which incentives motivate behavioral change. Questions will assess potential for coercion, parental previous intention to test, and whether incentives overcame economic and/or emotional barriers to testing	2 months
Secondary	Care seeking	A post-test questionnaire will assess whether learning the child's HIV status will affect the likelihood of seeking future medical services for the child	2 months
Secondary	Emotional impact	A post-test questionnaire will assess impact of testing on caregiver, child, and family emotional well-being	2 months