HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks

NCT02944877 | Completed Results

• 2 other identifiers: 202057681R01MH106415
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 900
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study \[HOPE: Harnessing Online Peer Education\] seeks to determine the efficacy of using online social networks to scale peer community leader models to increase HIV prevention within African-American and Latino men who have sex with men. The peer community leader model, which teaches community popular opinion leaders about how to disseminate behavior changes messages throughout the community, has been proven to increase HIV prevention behaviors. Social media and online communities, such as Facebook, may be a cost-effective platform for scaling these models. Primarily upper middle-class White populations used the Internet in its early years, however, Internet use within African-American and Latino households has recently increased dramatically, especially on social media. People using the Internet may be at the highest risk for contracting HIV and are using novel Internet approaches to find sex partners, such as through social media. This is the first study to examine the effectiveness of the HOPE social media intervention to increase HIV testing among at-risk groups in the United States.

Conditions

HIV

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of Participants Requesting HIV Self-Testing

  At home/self HIV testing kits can be requested to be ordered and will be provided to all participants who request it.

  5 years

Study Arms (2)

intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

experimental

Behavioral: social media intervention

control

OTHER

Other

Behavioral: social media intervention

Interventions

social media intervention BEHAVIORAL

social media intervention

control; intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 89 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• years of age or older
• Male
• Sexually active with another man in the last 12 months
• Willing and capable of understanding and assenting to an online informed consent form
• Has (or willing to create) a social media page.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, Irvine: lead
• University of California, Los Angeles: collaborator
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of California Irvine

Irvine, California, 92697, United States

Location

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Sean Young
• Organization: University of California, Irvine

syoung5@hs.uci.edu

714-413-2347

Study Officials

• Sean Young

  University of California, Irvine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Informatics

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 5, 2016
• First Posted: October 26, 2016
• Study Start: December 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: January 31, 2021
• Study Completion: January 31, 2023
• Last Updated: October 29, 2024
• Results First Posted: October 29, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-10

Locations

US (1)