Using HIV Risk Assessment Tool to Promote HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

N/AUnknownNCT03320239

National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC4,500 enrolled

Overview

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a HIV risk assessment tool to promote HIV testing and to reduce high risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM). It hypothesizes that the social media-based HIV risk assessment tool can increase 20% HIV testing proportion during the six months follow-up period.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

4,500

Conditions

HIV/AIDS HIV Infections Social Media

Interventions

HIV risk assessment and tailored suggestionsBEHAVIORAL

The intervention contains: HIV risk investigation, tailored suggestions and free HIV testing link

HIV risk behavior assessmentBEHAVIORAL

It only contains HIV risk behavior assessment and routine education

placebo controlBEHAVIORAL

It only contains HIV/AIDS knowledge assessment and routine education

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 70 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Male at birth. * Having had homo-sexual behaviors (anal/oral) in the past 6 months before enrollment. * An age of 18 years or older. * Living in Beijing, China. * Self-reporting HIV negative or unknown. * Willingly participating into the baseline survey and the six months follow ups. * Agreeing not to share the research link to others. * Owning a mobile phone and having had downloaded the social networking Application Blued before enrollment. Exclusion Criteria: * Not accepting blood sampling within the study period. * Reporting injecting drugs use in the past six months before enrollment. * Being currently involved in other HIV behavioral interventions for MSM. * Having a specific plan to leave from Beijing in the next 6 months. * Self-reporting female. * Other reasons the investigators deem make participation either detrimental to the participants or the study.

Locations (1)

national center for AIDS control and prevention

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The proportion of HIV testing during the study period

The numerator is the number of participants who come to the specific HIV testing clinics for HIV test during the study period, the denominator is the number of participants randomized per group.

Time frame: 1 month

Secondary Outcomes

unprotected anal intercourse

Questionaire will be used to collect the frequency of unprotected anal intercourse at month 1, month 3 and month 6 after the study starts.

Time frame: 6 months

Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP)

Questionaire will be used to collect data on whether participants use PEP at month 1, month 3 and month 6.

Time frame: 6 months

Central Contacts

Wu Z You, PhD

CONTACT

010-58900946 wuzy@263.net

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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