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

Behavior, Sex Clinical Trial

Official title:

Efficacies of Two WeChat Mini Program-based Interventions in Reducing Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Heterosexual Male Factory Workers in China: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05811611
• Other study ID #: HLPM201907020105
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Zixin Wang, PhD
• Phone: +852 22528740
• Email: wangzx[@]cuhk.edu.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 244
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Behavior, Sex

Intervention

Behavioral:
• WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos
Participants have access to a WeChat Mini Program. Participants will also watch online health promotion videos tailored to their current sexual behaviors.
• WeChat Mini Program Only
Participants only have access to a WeChat Mini Program.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Centre for Health Behaviours Research, the Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sexual intercourse with non-regular female sex partner	Proportion of the participants who have sexual intercourse with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months	6 months
Primary	Sexual intercourse with female sex workers	Proportion of participants who have sexual intercourse with a female sex worker in the past six months	6 months
Secondary	Condomless sex with non-regular female sex partners	Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months	6 months
Secondary	Condomless sex with female sex workers	Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a female sex worker in the past six months	6 months