ID & Testing in Male Partners

A Pilot Study to Identify and Describe the Male Sexual Partners of Adolescent and Young Adult Women Enrolled in ATN 067

This pilot study is a sub-study of ATN 067. ATN 067 utilizes a cross-sectional research design to recruit Latina and African American young women to undergo HIV screening. The primary goal of this proposed pilot study, ATN 084, is to explore the feasibility and acceptability of index female recruiters identifying and recruiting their past and present male sexual partners to undergo HIV screening and complete a one-time ACASI interview. In addition, the study will also include female friendship network members who were enrolled in ATN 067 and were diagnosed with HIV. These young women will also be asked to recruit their past and present male sex partners to undergo HIV screening.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: HIV

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 177

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Miami, Florida, United States, 33101
      • University of Miami School Of Medicine
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
      • Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center/ John H Stroger Jr Hospital
  • New York
    • Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
      • Montefiore Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

This study will include index recruiters and their male sexual partners. The index recruiters will be comprised of young women who served as index recruiters in ATN 067 and members of their female friendship network members who tested HIV positive based on HIV screening and a confirmatory test result that was conducted in ATN 067. All study participants will be 18 years of age or older.

Description

Inclusion Criteria for 084 Index Recruiters:

• 1) Completed participation or is currently enrolled as an index recruiter in ATN 067 or 2) Is a female friendship network member enrolled in ATN 067 who is diagnosed as being HIV infected during her participation in the ATN 067 study;
• Aged 18 years or older at the time of consent;
• Willing to recruit at least one, but no more than six past or current male sexual partners who are willing to discuss and consider HIV screening. A male sexual partner includes individuals with whom the index recruiter has engaged in at least one episode of oral, vaginal or anal sex in the course of their lifetime;
• Able to understand written and spoken English; and
• Willing to provide written informed consent/assent.

Exclusion Criteria for 084 Index Recruiters:

• Self-report of pregnancy at enrollment (pregnancy testing is not required);
• Untreated psychiatric disorder associated with a thought disorder, hallucinations or acute substance use withdrawal. Stabilized patients receiving appropriate psychiatric care will not be excluded if informed consent can be reasonably assumed;
• Visibly distraught and/or visibly emotionally unstable (e.g., depressive mood or exhibiting manic, suicidal, or violent behavior);
• Active drug or alcohol use or dependence that, in the opinion of the site personnel, would interfere with ability to give true informed consent and adhere to the study requirements or;
• Acute illness that, in the opinion of the treating clinician, would interfere with the participant's ability to adhere to the protocol requirements and/or interfere with the protocol objectives.

Inclusion Criteria for Male Sexual Partners:

• Is born male;
• Aged 18 years or older at the time of consent;
• Identified as a male sexual partner of an index recruiter enrolled in ATN 067 (having had vaginal and/or anal sexual intercourse in the past);
• Willing to complete a sociodemographic and behavioral risk assessment survey;
• Willing to discuss and consider HIV screening;
• Able to understand written and spoken English; and
• Willing to provide written informed consent/assent.

Exclusion Criteria for Male Sexual Partners:

• Untreated psychiatric disorder associated with a thought disorder, hallucinations, and/or acute substance use withdrawal. Stabilized patients receiving appropriate psychiatric care will not be excluded if informed consent can be reasonably assumed;
• Visibly distraught and/or visibly emotionally unstable (e.g., depressive mood or exhibiting manic, suicidal, or violent behavior);
• Active drug or alcohol use or dependence that, in the opinion of the site personnel, would interfere with ability to give true informed consent and adhere to the study requirements or;
• Acute illness that, in the opinion of the treating clinician, would interfere with the participant's ability to adhere to the protocol requirements and/or interfere with the protocol objectives.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Index Recruiter; Young African American or Latina women who served as index recruiters in ATN 067 and members of their female friendship network members who tested HIV positive based on HIV screening and a confirmatory test result that was conducted in ATN 067.
Male Sexual Partners; Any male partner who engaged in at least one episode of oral, vaginal or anal sex during the course of their lifetime with an 084 index recruiter.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
To examine the feasibility of identifying/recruiting the male sex partners of African American and Latina sexually experienced females aged 18 or older who were either index recruiters in ATN 067 or their HIV-infected female friendship network members.	2 months
To conduct HIV screening among the male sexual partners of the ATN 084 female index recruiters and examine factors that facilitate and hinder these individuals in undergoing HIV screening.	2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
To compare sociodemographic characteristics, risk behaviors, psychosocial variables and self-reported sex partners of the male sexual partners of the ATN 084 female index recruiters.	2 months
To describe sexual mixing patterns (assortative/dissortative), bridging and concurrency among the ATN 084 index recruiters and their male sexual partners by age race/ethnicity and HIV status.	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Collaborators: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Investigators: Study Chair: Lisa Hightow-Weidman, M.D., MPH, Adolescent Trials Network; Study Chair: Cherrie Boyer, Ph.D., Adolescent Trials Network

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• ATN Website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: May 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2011
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 16, 2009
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 16, 2009
• First Posted (Estimate): December 17, 2009

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 12, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 11, 2023
• Last Verified: March 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Networks; Index recruiter
• Other Study ID Numbers: ATN 084