HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education): Using Online Social Networks for HIV Prevention and Testing

HIV Clinical Trial

— HOPE  

Official title:

Using Online Social Networks for HIV Prevention and Testing

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01701206
• Other study ID #: K01MH090884
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 4, 2012
• Last updated: May 1, 2017
• Start date: July 2009
• Est. completion date: July 2015

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: University of California, Los Angeles
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study seeks to determine whether social networking technologies can be used to increase HIV prevention and testing.The HOPE (Harnessing Online Peer Education) model seeks to apply a diffusion of innovations style intervention to social media to increase HIV testing.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 558
• Est. completion date: July 2015
• Est. primary completion date: July 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years or older

• Has had sex with a man in the past 12 months

• Lives in Lima or Callao, Peu

• Has a Facebook account or willing to create one

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not satisfy inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• HIV knowledge Intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Peru	Epicentro Commun	Lima
United States	University of California, Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Los Angeles

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Peru, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	HIV self-testing-Number of participants who request an HIV self-testing kit		Measured during the intervention