A Comprehensive Approach to Secondary HIV Prevention and Care Among Positives

NCT01935440 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: R01DA032217
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 632
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to conduct an HIV prevention intervention to train HIV seropositive drug users to be peer health educators.

Conditions

HIV

Keywords

HIV, drug use

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• change in HIV medication adherence

  6 month

• change in frequency in attending HIV medical appointments

  6 month

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• change in sharing injection equipment

  6 month

• change in condom use

  6 month

Study Arms (2)

Prevention & Testing Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The comparison condition is focused on basic HIV risk reduction , safety and preventing drug overdose.

Behavioral: Prevention & Testing Control

Prevention & Testing Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention condition is training on peer outreach skills which includes talking to HIV positive social network members about HIV care, medication adherence and HIV risk reduction.

Behavioral: Prevention & Testing

Interventions

Prevention & Testing BEHAVIORAL

6 group sessions, 1 individual session, and 1 dyad session

Prevention & Testing Intervention

Prevention & Testing Control BEHAVIORAL

7 group sessions

Prevention & Testing Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Index
• years old or older
• documentation of HIV positive status
• report one of following risk behaviors in past 90 days: sharing injection equipment, use of crack cocaine, or unprotected vaginal or anal sex
• Testing network
• or older
• provided testing coupon provided by an index participant
• Longitudinal network participant-
• tested HIV negative at the Lighthouse via redeeming a testing coupon
• reported interacting with index who gave the coupon at least weekly
• report one of following risk behaviors in the prior 90 days: sharing injection equipment, use of crack cocaine, or unprotected vaginal or anal sex
• Positive Networks
• HIV positive
• report one of following risk behaviors in the prior 90 days: sharing injection equipment, use of crack cocaine, or unprotected vaginal or anal sex

You may not qualify if:

• Index- already enrolled in the study as a Network participant
• Testing network- already enrolled in the study as a Network participant
• Longitudinal network- a) already enrolled in the study as a Network participant b) already enrolled in the study as a Index participant
• Positive network- a) already enrolled in the study as a Network participant b) already enrolled in the study as a Index participant

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: lead
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Lighhouse Studies @ Peer Point

Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Carl A Latkin, PhD

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 20, 2013
• First Posted: September 5, 2013
• Study Start: November 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: January 31, 2017
• Study Completion: January 31, 2017
• Last Updated: July 9, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-07

Locations

US (1)