Pilot of Mpowerment for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM) in Beirut

October 5, 2020 updated by: RAND

Pilot of Culturally Tailored Mpowerment for HIV Prevention Among YMSM in Beirut

This project will adapt and pilot a multi-level, community-based intervention to promote HIV prevention and sexual health among young men who have sex with men in Beirut.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Mpowerment (MP) is an evidence-based community-level, structural, social and behavioral intervention for HIV prevention developed for YMSM that targets individual and community empowerment and mobilization, self-affirmation, sexual self-knowledge, and creation of a supportive social environment. MP has been widely used in the U.S., but not in a mostly Muslim setting. This project will adapt and pilot MP for the sociocultural issues facing YMSM (age 18-29) in Beirut. There will be a 2-year pilot implementation of MP, with longitudinal cohorts of YMSM in Beirut and Jounieh, the latter being the control community. Primary outcomes will be unprotected anal sex and HIV testing, with secondary outcomes being engagement in peer outreach, and perceived peer norms related to condom use and HIV testing.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

226

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

14 years to 25 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • men aged 18-29, who have had anal sex with men in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

  • not residing in Lebanon

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Community cohort
Beirut community will receive the multi-component intervention Mpowerment; the community cohort of YMSM will be used to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the community, as the cohort participants may or may not have participated in the intervention.
Behavioral: Mpowerment
MP is a multi-level intervention that reaches out to all YMSM in a community by mobilizing men to encourage their friends to reduce risk behavior and join the program (informal outreach), along with holding social activities that promote safe sex (formal outreach). MP provides YMSM with skills, support and confidence to find solutions within themselves for sexual health, and seeks to affirm the validity and rights of same-sex behavior and identities.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
condomless anal sex
Time Frame: past 3 months
condomless anal sex with HIV+ or unknown status partners in past 3 months will be assessed via questionnaire
past 3 months
HIV testing
Time Frame: past 6 months
Variable will be assessed via questionnaire
past 6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

RAND

Collaborators

University of California, San Francisco
AIDS Project Los Angeles
Lebanese AIDS Society
Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Glenn Wagner, PhD, RAND

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 16, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 27, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

September 29, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 6, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 5, 2020

Last Verified

October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 2014-0992

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

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