SHARE Program: SUSTAIN

June 9, 2026 updated by: Sylvie Naar, Florida State University

Sustaining Healthy Choices: Optimizing a State-wide Scalable Intervention to Improve Alcohol and HIV Self-management in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

The goal of PROJECT SUSTAIN is to optimize Healthy Choices to advance an adaptive and scalable intervention designed to improve self-management of alcohol and HIV in Young People with HIV (YPWH) while understanding the context for state-wide implementation and sustainment in a Hybrid Experimental Design (HED). SUSTAIN utilizes mHealth and telehealth intervention delivery of Healthy Choices (HC), combined with text messaging between sessions, to increase the likelihood of daily medication adherence (primary outcome), and increase the likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3 (secondary outcome).

Study Overview

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Detailed Description

Primary aim: To test whether, on average, delivering (vs. not delivering) a text messaged prompt focused on medication adherence or stress increases the likelihood of medication adherence by the end of the current day.

Secondary aim: To test whether offering (vs. not offering) a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching session at the end of week 2 (day 14) increases the likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3.

Implementation Aim: Assess barriers and facilitators to the implementation and sustainment of intervention sequences for state-wide scale up using mixed methods (EPIS qualitative interviews, youth satisfaction and dose received, fidelity for telehealth, paradata for mHealth, and cost-effectiveness analysis).

Cross-project Moderator Aim: Explore age, biological sex and gender, ethnicity, other substance use, and mental health as moderators of intervention effects.

Primary hypothesis to be tested: Delivering (vs. not delivering) a text messaged prompt will lead to greater likelihood of medication adherence by the end of the current day.

Secondary hypothesis to be tested: Offering a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching at the end of week 2 will lead to greater likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3 (post-intervention) compared to not offering a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching session at the end of week 2.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

150

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • Florida
      • Tallahassee, Florida, United States, 32310
        • Florida State University, Center for Translational Behavioral Science
      • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33620
        • University of South Florida
    • Massachusetts
      • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
        • Northeastern University
    • Michigan
      • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48106
        • University of Michigan

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

  • Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Be 18 years and 0 months to 29 years and 11 months.
  • Currently reside in Florida
  • History of alcohol use
  • Are not pregnant nor trying to conceive within the study's timeline
  • Are able to read and understand English
  • Have internet access via smartphone, tablet or computer
  • Are willing to provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Adults unable to consent
  • Prisoners
  • Those using long-acting injectables as HIV medication regimen

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: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Within-participant micro-randomization - Prompt
Participants will be randomized daily to receive a text messaged prompt focused on medication adherence or stress.
This within-participant micro-randomization will test whether, on average, delivering (vs. not delivering) a text messaged prompt focused on medication adherence or stress increases the likelihood of medication adherence by the end of the current day .
Experimental: Between-participant randomization - CIAS + Week 2 Coaching Session

Participants will be randomized at the end of week 2 (day 14) to receive the Healthy Choices telehealth intervention with trained interventionist at week 2.

All enrolled participants will receive an initial Healthy Choices mHealth intervention which involves a MI based coaching session via Computerized Intervention Authoring Software (CIAS).

Healthy Choices is an adapted and developmentally tailored intervention designed to address self-management of risk behaviors and HIV from Motivational Enhancement Therapy, a brief alcohol intervention in SAMHSA's registry of evidenced-based programs. For the purposes of this project, this intervention will be delivered as a combination approach, with all participants receiving an initial session via CIAS, and randomized to either receiving a telehealth session with a trained interventionist at week 2, with additional randomizations for telehealth sessions at weeks 4 and 6. The goal is to test if delivering (vs. not delivering) a coaching session increases the likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3
No Intervention: Within-participant micro-randomization - No Prompt
Participants will be randomized daily to not receive a text messaged prompt focused on medication adherence or stress.
No Intervention: Between-participant randomization - CIAS + No Week 2 Coaching Session

Participants will be randomized at the end of week 2 (day 14) to NOT receive the Healthy Choices telehealth intervention with trained interventionist at week 2.

All enrolled participants will receive an initial Healthy Choices mHealth intervention which involves a MI based coaching session via Computerized Intervention Authoring Software (CIAS).

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
ART Adherence
Time Frame: Daily for 56 Days
Antiretroviral (ART) adherence will be assessed daily using an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) survey delivered via SMS. Individuals will be asked whether they took some or all of their medication.
Daily for 56 Days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Alcohol Use
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 month, and 6 month
Alcohol will be assessed using the Timeline Followback (TLFB) measure to capture amount of drinking over a 30 day period, assessed at baseline, and at the 3 and 6 month follow-ups. Participants complete a 30 day calendar that assesses number of drinks per day and number of hours spent drinking per drinking day.
Baseline, 3 month, and 6 month
HIV Viral Load
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 month, and 6 month
HIV Viral Load collected via Dried Blood Spot (DBS) kits. The limit of detection (LOD) of the m2000 test is 832 copies/mL or Log 2.92 copies/mL. For samples with VL above the LOD (>Log 2.92) can be quantified so a VL is provided. In case of samples with less than LOD is given as <2.92 but it's reported as detected as the presence of HIV virus is detected but cannot be quantified as it's below the LOD so cannot be measured. And samples that are not detected are reported as 'not detected.'
Baseline, 3 month, and 6 month

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 22, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

January 30, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

January 30, 2027

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 11, 2025

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 11, 2025

First Posted (Actual)

April 18, 2025

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 11, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 9, 2026

Last Verified

June 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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