HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks

HIV Clinical Trial

Official title:

HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02944877
• Other study ID #: 1R01MH106415 [HS# 2020-5768]
• Secondary ID: 1R01MH106415
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 2016
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: May 2023
• Source: University of California, Irvine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study [HOPE: Harnessing Online Peer Education] seeks to determine the efficacy of using online social networks to scale peer community leader models to increase HIV prevention within African-American and Latino men who have sex with men. The peer community leader model, which teaches community popular opinion leaders about how to disseminate behavior changes messages throughout the community, has been proven to increase HIV prevention behaviors. Social media and online communities, such as Facebook, may be a cost-effective platform for scaling these models. Primarily upper middle-class White populations used the Internet in its early years, however, Internet use within African-American and Latino households has recently increased dramatically, especially on social media. People using the Internet may be at the highest risk for contracting HIV and are using novel Internet approaches to find sex partners, such as through social media. This is the first study to examine the effectiveness of the HOPE social media intervention to increase HIV testing among at-risk groups in the United States.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 900
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years to 89 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age or older

• Male

• Sexually active with another man in the last 12 months

• Willing and capable of understanding and assenting to an online informed consent form

• Has (or willing to create) a social media page.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Does not satisfy inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV

Intervention

Behavioral:
• social media intervention
social media intervention

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California Irvine	Irvine	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Irvine	University of California, Los Angeles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of participants requesting HIV Self-Testing	At home/self HIV testing kits will be provided to all participants.	5 years