- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03157258
Social Network Intervention to Engage Community PLH to Engage in HIV Medical Care
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Detailed Description
Phase I of the planned research will be the conduct of in-depth interviews with 30 HIV+ persons not in medical care or not adherent to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) regimens, including men and women representing diverse exposure risks (drug use, men who have sex with men, and heterosexual transmission). Interviews will elicit information on ways in which HIV-positive friends can support one another in HIV care entry, retention, and adherence; types of support from PLH friends that would best support treatment engagement; and how peer supports can lessen the negative effects of substance use on care engagement.
Phase 2 will recruit 48 out-of-care or ART nonadherent HIV+ individuals from community settings in St. Petersburg, Russia. These individuals, who are referred to as "network seeds," will invite their HIV+ friends, who will in turn invite their own HIV+ friends into the study, creating a sample of 48 networks (expected n=288, 6 members/network x 48 networks). Following baseline assessment of care engagement, ART adherence, treatment attitudes, psychosocial distress, substance use, and CD4+ and viral load, 24 networks (n=144 participants) will be randomized to an intervention condition and 24 networks (n=144) to the comparison condition. All members of each intervention condition network will together attend a 4-session intervention to strengthen attitudes, intentions, and skills for entering, remaining, and adhering to HIV medical care. Because participants will attend sessions with other individuals who are their own friends in day-to-day life, the intervention will build and increase mutual social support within each network for HIV care and adherence. Peer champions identified in each intervention network will attend 3 additional sessions in which they are guided to reinforce and help to sustain friends' medical care engagement. Intervention outcomes will be determined by baseline to 6- and 12-month followup change on primary measures of participant attendance at HIV medical care visits, adherence to ART regimens, and viral load as well as secondary measures of alcohol use, drug use, sexual risk behavior, treatment attitudes, and psychosocial distress.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Wisconsin
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53202
- Medical College of Wisconsin
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 or older;
- Self-report as being HIV-positive, with positive HIV status confirmed in study-provided testing;
- Except for initial seeds, must be named by an already-enrolled participant as a PLH friend; and
- Do not plan to move from the St. Petersburg, Russia, area for the next 18 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age 17 or younger;
- Self-report as HIV-negative or HIV-positive serostatus is not confirmed by testing;
- Not be named as a PLH friend by an already-enrolled participant; and
- Intend to move from the St. Petersburg, Russia, area during the next 18 months.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Social Network Endorsement
All participants will receive a brief single care-related counseling session and referral to HIV medical care upon enrollment.
After randomization to this arm, all members of HIV+ social networks will attend a multi-session group intervention during which they will be trained to deliver messages endorsing compliance with medical guidelines and adherence to medical treatment regimens to friends.
Additionally, these leaders will be trained how to deliver effective messages.
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Members of HIV+ social networks randomized to this arm will be trained to endorse compliance with medical guidelines and adherence to medical treatment regimens to their friends.
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Active Comparator: HIV Counseling and Referral to Care
All study participants will receive a brief single care-related counseling session and referral to HIV medical care at baseline.
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Members of HIV+ social networks randomized to this arm will attend a single, brief care-related counseling session and referral to care at baseline.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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HIV viral load values
Time Frame: 0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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Change in HIV viral load values at baseline will be compared with HIV viral load values determined at 6 months post-intervention and 12 months post-intervention.
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0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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HIV medical care visits
Time Frame: 0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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Change in the number of self-reported HIV medical care visits, comparing the number of visits reported at baseline to the number reported at followup assessments.
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0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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Antiretroviral medication adherence
Time Frame: 0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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Change in medication adherence (as measured by the visual analogue scale; J.C. Walsh, et al, 2002), comparing the adherence percentage reported at baseline to the adherence percentage reported at followup assessments.
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0 months; 6 months; 12 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- RNA Virus Infections
- Virus Diseases
- Infections
- Blood-Borne Infections
- Communicable Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Lentivirus Infections
- Retroviridae Infections
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Immune System Diseases
- Slow Virus Diseases
- HIV Infections
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Other Study ID Numbers
- PRO28750
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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