Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

HIV Clinical Trial

Official title:

Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01980771
• Other study ID #: 5P20MD006875, subproject 5174
• Secondary ID: 5P20MD006875
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2012
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: October 2021
• Source: State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This program utilizes a community-engaged research approach to implementing and evaluating a program that seeks to reduce sexual risk behavior among Black adult heterosexual men. The investigators aims are to assess the impact of this linguistically and culturally tailored HIV prevention program on the sexual risk of heterosexual, African American men aged 18 and older, to assess the intervention's impact on the more proximal social and psychosocial variables that the program is designed to change, and to identify key contextual level factors that may impact the intervention's impact across segments of this priority population.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 860
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: February 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Unprotected sex in the past three months

• Identify as Black or African American

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having been in an HIV prevention research study in the last six months

• Reporting a history in the past five years of injection drug use

• Reporting a history in the past five years of having sex with other men

• Reporting an HIV-positive serostatus

• Inability to understand spoken English.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• BTWB intervention
Men work in groups to complete a intervention that takes approximately two hours to complete.
• Cancer prevention and screening
Men are provided health education about cancer screening and prevention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc.	Brooklyn	New York
United States	SUNY Downstate Medical Center	Brooklyn	New York

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center	National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sexual Behavior	Self-reported sexual behavior is the number of participants that report any unprotected anal and/or vaginal sex in the past ninety days.	Six month follow-up