Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

N/ACompletedNCT01980771

State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center860 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

860

Conditions

HIV

Interventions

BTWB intervention

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Locations (2)

Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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.

Time frame: Six month follow-up