Urine Tenofovir Point-of-care Test to Identify Patients in Need of ART Adherence Support (UTRA Study)

Risk Reduction Clinical Trial

Official title:

Urine Tenofovir Point-of-care Test to Identify Patients in Need of ART Adherence Support (UTRA Study)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05333679
• Other study ID #: AI152119
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2, 2022
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: University of California, San Francisco
• Contact: Monica Gandhi, MD
• Phone: 415 476 4082
• Email: Monica.Gandhi[@]ucsf.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

ART is given to people living with HIV in order to suppress the virus, resulting in improved health for the individual and decreased transmission of the virus to others. Success of ART is dependent on adherence. Currently, adherence is assessed by asking patients directly and then confirming with a viral load test, which is expensive and is often only done when the viral load is already raised. Therefore there is a need to find a method to detect problems with adherence early before the viral load rises.

A urine-based test was recently developed, called UTRA (urine tenofovir rapid assay). This test can give clinic staff immediate results about a person's adherence to the antiretroviral medication Tenofovir (TDF). The study will compare the results of this urine test to drug levels found in blood, self-reported adherence and pharmacy collection records to see if this test can be used as part of routine care in ART clinics. If the test is effective it would allow clinic staff to identify people with adherence difficulties early and give them the necessary support before their viral load rises.

Description:

This is a randomised study, recruiting 200 people taking TDF-based ART. Participants will be randomised 1:1 to intervention versus standard enhanced adherence counselling. Intervention participants will receive an adherence support package informed by feedback from the urine-based test. The investigators will assess the impact of the adherence test on VL suppression rates in each arm (without necessitating a regimen switch) at 12 months after enrolment. Enrolling participants with adherence challenges increases efficiency and mirrors the population requiring adherence support in our setting.

The UTRA device used for this study has received a FDA Non-Significant Risk (NSR) designation and is IDE exempt.

FEASIBILITY:

The investigators will track retention in the study among participants in each arm, missed visits, and the number of urine assessments performed in the intervention arm.

ACCEPTABILITY:

All participants enrolled will also complete a standardised questionnaire about the acceptability of the adherence support they received. This measure of acceptability will be assessed as a secondary outcome by arm, along with socio-demographics profiles associated with low/high acceptability described within arm.

QUALITATIVE PROCEDURES:

1. Participant in-depth interviews: Qualitative data will include in-depth interviews of participants (n~20; ~3-4 interviews with each participant over 6-9 months of their treatment) using semi-structured guides conducted by experienced socio-behavioural scientists. The semi-structured interview guide will elicit feelings about the urine adherence metric and counseling messages, concerns regarding privacy, advantages/disadvantages of receiving such results, and the likely impact of this monitoring test on sustained adherence to ART or just on short-term adherence. Interviews will be conducted in participants' preferred language.

2. Health care worker interviews: The investigators will additionally assess the feasibility of the intervention by interviewing health care providers, who will be administering the UTRA test at the clinical point of care in the future. The study will examine provider perceptions of the assay at the end of the study using in-depth interviews (n~10), assessing perceived usefulness, complexity to use, stigma/social harm, and benefits. These interviews will also elicit barriers and facilitators to delivery of the urine assay-informed counseling messages.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: March 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• =18 years old

• Willing and able to provide written informed consent

• HIV-infected, receiving or (re-)starting a tenofovir-based ART regimen

• Current ART regimen includes at least one drug with a high genetic barrier to resistance e.g. dolutegravir, atazanavir/ritonavir, darunavir/ritonavir or lopinavir/ritonavir.

• Any previous raised viral load >50 copies/ml (after ART initiation).

• Willing and able to comply with laboratory tests and other study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not willing or able to provide informed consent in any of the languages provided

• Not receiving a tenofovir-based ART regimen

• Any other clinical condition that in the opinion of an investigator puts the patient at increased risk if participating in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Risk Reduction

Intervention

Device:
• UTRA
Collect urine on intervention participants and screen for presence of TFV.

Behavioral:
• UTRA feedback
Feedback will be provided to the participant based on the UTRA results on their adherence with provision of standard adherence counseling.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
South Africa	Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, University of Cape Town	Cape Town	Western Cape

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Francisco	University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch

Country where clinical trial is conducted

South Africa, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of participants in each arm achieving viral suppression to <50 copies/ml	Assess suppression rates (VL< 50 copies/mL) in both study arms using an intention-to-treat analysis. Plasma will be stored an enrolment, month 6 and month 12 for viral load assay completion after the study. Samples are assayed either with the Alinity m HIV-1 assay (Abbott Laboratories. Abbott Park, Illinois, U.S.A.); lower limit of detection (LLD) 10 copies/mL or the COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® HIV-1 Test, v2.0 (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland); LLD 20 copies/mL. Whole blood will be centrifuged and plasma then tested on the automated analyzer according to national standard operating procedures	12 months
Secondary	Retention in care	Follow up visits will occur in 12-week increments post-enrolment: at month 3, month 6, month 9 and month 12; and will be synchronized wherever possible with routine clinic visits. Visit windows will be continuous, with each window extending to 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after the visit target date. A visit will be considered missed if the participant does not attend during the 12-week visit window	12 months
Secondary	Viral suppression (<50 copies/mL)	Assess suppression rates (VL< 50 copies/mL) in both study arms using an intention-to-treat analysis. Samples are assayed either with the Alinity m HIV-1 assay (Abbott Laboratories. Abbott Park, Illinois, U.S.A.); lower limit of detection (LLD) 10 copies/mL or the COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® HIV-1 Test, v2.0 (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland); LLD 20 copies/mL. Whole blood will be centrifuged and plasma then tested on the automated analyzer according to national standard operating procedures	6 months
Secondary	The proportion of participants indicating "strongly agree" or "agree" averaged across 10 items, each using a five-point Likert scale to measure aspects of the adherence support intervention (i.e., by arm: UTRA-informed or standard of care)	The proportion of participants indicating "strongly agree" or "agree" averaged across 10 items, each item using a five-point Likert scale to measure aspects of acceptability of the adherence support intervention (i.e., by arm: UTRA-informed or standard of care), at month 12. Responses to the Likert scale range from "Strongly agree" to "Strongly disagree". Aspects of acceptability include domains on: support from health workers, time given by health workers to discuss the patients' treatment, patient perceptions of feeling informed about their adherence, feelings of surveillance (-vely scored), and self-satisfactions with adherence.	12 months