Online Social Networking for HIV Prevention

HIV Clinical Trial

Official title:

Online Social Networking for HIV Prevention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00725959
• Other study ID #: COMIRB 07-0459
• Secondary ID: R01NR0104921R01N
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 29, 2008
• Last updated: November 1, 2017
• Start date: September 2008
• Est. completion date: December 2011

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: Colorado School of Public Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In this randomized controlled trial, we will identify social networks on Facebook, an randomly assign each network to control or intervention status. We will then intervene at the level of the network with dynamic, interactive HIV prevention messages (intervention) or static messages about HIV prevention (control). We will develop the intervention content with input from our target audience (Facebook users) and will measure baseline, and 3 and 6 month assessments of condom use and abstinence among all participants

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1578
• Est. completion date: December 2011
• Est. primary completion date: December 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Facebook user with an existing Facebook page

• at least 16

• no older than 24

• English speaker

Exclusion Criteria:

• older than 24 or younger than 16

• non English speaker

• does not have a Facebook page

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Online social networking HIV prevention
messages about HIV posted in online social networking sites

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Colorado School of Public Health	Columbia University, Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), Rutgers University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of Condom Usage	number of times condom used divided by number of times person had sex in past 60 days	two months
Secondary	Condom and Abstinence Norms, Attitudes, Self-efficacy and Intentions		two months