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NCT number NCT00838773
Other study ID # R01DA023854
Secondary ID 9R01DA023854
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase Phase 2
First received February 5, 2009
Last updated April 16, 2015
Start date May 2007
Est. completion date December 2016

Study information

Verified date April 2015
Source Medical College of Wisconsin
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This grant involves 24 social networks of young men who have sex with men, Roma, and young high-risk heterosexual adult men and women living in Hungary, Bulgaria and Russia.


Description:

For over 4 years, our international collaborative research team has carried out a social network HIV prevention intervention trial with community populations of young men who have sex with men (YMSM), disadvantaged ethnic minority Roma (Gypsies), and high-risk heterosexual adult (YHA) women and men in Hungary, Bulgaria and Russia. Eastern Europe has seen a sharp increase in HIV incidence, and social network interventions are high in cultural relevance because post-communist populations have a long history of trusting and relying upon their personal networks more than their governments. Across the three countries represented in our research during the past funding period, we enrolled social networks of YMSM, Roma, and YHAs. This study will renew our international collaboration to extend this network intervention approach. Our study, to date, has worked with very small independent friendship groups (usually composed of 5-6 people) as "egocentric" social networks.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Active, not recruiting
Enrollment 1640
Est. completion date December 2016
Est. primary completion date April 2012
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender Both
Age group 14 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:Members of a friendship group will be eligible for enrollment if they are of legal age to independently consent to participate in this study. In its review and approval of this protocol, the IRB at BotkinHospital, St. Petersburg, Russia verified and confirmed in writing to us that the age of research participation consent is 15. In its review and approval of this protocol, the IRB at the Health and Social Development Foundation determined that the age of research participation consent in Bulgaria is 16. In Hungary, the IRB at the Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences determined that the age of independent consent to participate in this study is 14.

Exclusion Criteria:Individuals will be excluded from enrollment into the study if they are below the age for providing independent consent or are not capable of providing informed consent based on impairment due to the presence of sever psychopatology, substance use, or similar conditions observed at the time of informed consent. Social networks will be excluded from the study if: (1) more than 33% of named network members do not agree to participate; (2) fewer than 50% of members report occurrence of unprotected intercourse during the past 3 months at baseline; or (3) more than 10% of a network's members are also members of another network enrolled in the study.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
YMSM
Leaders of networks in the experimental condition will participate in a 9-session intervention training program that will inspire and assist leaders to communicate HIV prevention risk reduction messages with their immediate friends. The first five sessions will focus on HIV risk predictors including HIV/AIDS knowledge, safer sex peer norms, condom attitudes, condom use intentions, and self-efficacy in remaining safe. The remaining four sessions will reinforce the leaders for continuing their HIV prevention communications and remind them of the topics during the main sessions.
YHA
Leaders of networks in the experimental condition will participate in a 9-session intervention training program that will inspire and assist leaders to communicate HIV prevention risk reduction messages with their immediate friends. The first five sessions will focus on HIV risk predictors including HIV/AIDS knowledge, safer sex peer norms, condom attitudes, condom use intentions, and self-efficacy in remaining safe. The remaining four sessions will reinforce the leaders for continuing their HIV prevention communications and remind them of the topics during the main sessions.
ROMA
Leaders of networks in the experimental condition will participate in a 9-session intervention training program that will inspire and assist leaders to communicate HIV prevention risk reduction messages with their immediate friends. The first five sessions will focus on HIV risk predictors including HIV/AIDS knowledge, safer sex peer norms, condom attitudes, condom use intentions, and self-efficacy in remaining safe. The remaining four sessions will reinforce the leaders for continuing their HIV prevention communications and remind them of the topics during the main sessions.

Locations

Country Name City State
Bulgaria Health and Social Development Foundation Sofia
Hungary Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest
Russian Federation Botkin Hospital for Infectious Diseases #30 St. Petersburg

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Medical College of Wisconsin National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

Bulgaria,  Hungary,  Russian Federation, 

References & Publications (3)

Amirkhanian YA, Kelly JA, Takacs J, McAuliffe TL, Kuznetsova AV, Toth TP, Mocsonaki L, DiFranceisco WJ, Meylakhs A. Effects of a social network HIV/STD prevention intervention for MSM in Russia and Hungary: a randomized controlled trial. AIDS. 2015 Mar 13 — View Citation

Amirkhanian YA. Social networks, sexual networks and HIV risk in men who have sex with men. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2014 Mar;11(1):81-92. doi: 10.1007/s11904-013-0194-4. Review. — View Citation

Takács J, Kelly JA, P Tóth T, Mocsonaki L, Amirkhanian YA. Effects of Stigmatization on Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS in a Central-Eastern European Context: A Qualitative Analysis from Hungary. Sex Res Social Policy. 2013 Mar 1;10(1):24-34. Epub 2012 Oct 2 — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Target effect of at least 30% consistent condom use among the experimental intervention group at 15-month followup. August 2015 No
Secondary 15-month cumulative STD incidence rate of 20% among the control group compared 10% or less among the experimental group. August 2015 No
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