In the M-BRiHT study we aim to implement a programme of opportunistic HIV screening in the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. We hypothesize that such a programme will be acceptable in an Irish setting. We also wish to study the factors that influence test completion or acceptance. We will utilise informative interactive video media via a touch-screen tablet device to provide pre-test counselling and then offer rapid minimally invasive testing with a cotton-bud type swab of the buccal mucosa. In doing so we will to determine absolute numbers of those attending the ED who consent to watching the interactive information video about rapid HIV test screening. We will describe the absolute number and proportion of those who watch the interactive video who subsequently proceed to have the rapid HIV test. The primary aim is to determine the cultural, gender and ethnic factors which influence the completion of such rapid HIV testing with the future objective of maximising test completion in this crucial public health area.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
17,000
Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with no choice of counselor. This is delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.
Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with a choice of four different counselors. These gender and ethnically diverse counselors are delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.
Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
Dublin, Ireland
RECRUITINGNumber of patients agreeing to undergo a HIV screening test in the Emergency Department
Establish a programme of HIV screening in the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Acceptability of the programme will be judged in terms of absolute numbers of patients consenting to the test.
Time frame: 24 months
To determine the proportions of those who test negative who may fall in to the three month seroconversion window and to determine the proportion of those who return for repeat/multiple HIV tests at three months or other time in the future.
Time frame: 24 months
Absolute numbers of those attending the ED who consent to watching the interactive information video about rapid HIV test screening.
Time frame: 24 months
Absolute number and proportion of HIV positive test results
Time frame: 24 months
CD4 count and viral load of newly diagnosed HIV positive patients
Time frame: 24 months
Number of those testing positive who have acute seroconversion illness
Time frame: 24 months
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