The EMERGE Project: Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Messages in Young Adults

NCT03237871 | Completed Results

• 2 other identifiers: IRB0007563K01MH107310
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 17
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

As part of the development of the Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project, the study team will conduct a single-group study to examine the feasibility of assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors using text messages. The team will enroll approximately 20 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are African-American, homeless, out-of-school, and un/under-employed. Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks. The study team will collect information about the number of participants who respond to the weekly survey, the number of questions to which they respond in each survey, and the number of hours from sending a survey to participants to receiving their response. As an exploratory aim, participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment. The study team will obtain qualitative feedback from participants regarding text messages they most and least liked. The survey is not designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the text message intervention.

Conditions

Feasibility

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Number of Participants Who Respond to the Survey in Week 1

  Number of enrolled participants who respond to the survey in Week 1. Measure type 'number' was used for small sample size and as described in the original registration protocol.

  Week 1

• Mean Number of Questions to Which Participant Respond in Each Survey in Week 1

  Mean number of questions to which enrolled participant respond in each survey in Week 1.

  Week 1

• Mean Number of Hours From Sending a Survey to Participants to Receiving Their Response in Week 1

  Mean number of hours from sending a survey to enrolled participants to receiving their response in Week 1.

  Week 1

Study Arms (1)

Survey and informational text messages

EXPERIMENTAL

Text-message survey and informational text messages

Behavioral: Text-message survey and informational text messages

Interventions

Text-message survey and informational text messages BEHAVIORAL

Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors. Participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment.

Survey and informational text messages

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 24 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Individuals will be included in the study if, at the time of enrollment, they are:
• African American
• Aged 18-24
• Living in Baltimore City
• Experiencing homelessness in the past 12 months
• Employed fewer than 10 hours per week
• Not enrolled in school
• Ownership of a mobile phone with text-messaging capacity
• Reporting at least one episode of unprotected sex in prior 6 months or one other personal or sexual partner HIV risk factor within prior 6 months (STI diagnosis, sex while high or drunk, sex exchange, illicit drug use, alcohol dependence).

You may not qualify if:

• Aged 17 or younger.
• Older than 24 years
• Unwilling to provide consent for study participation

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: lead
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Jennings Mayo-Wilson L, Glass NE, Labrique A, Davoust M, Ssewamala FM, Linnemayr S, Johnson MW. Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Message Surveys in African-American Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness and Unemployment: Single-Group Study. JMIR Form Res. 2020 Jul 17;4(7):e14833. doi: 10.2196/14833.

  PMID: 32706656 DERIVED

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Principal Investigator
• Organization: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

ljennin6@jhu.edu

410-955-3537

Study Officials

• Larissa Jennings, PhD MHS

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 25, 2017
• First Posted: August 3, 2017
• Study Start: July 7, 2017
• Primary Completion: September 19, 2017
• Study Completion: September 19, 2017
• Last Updated: April 12, 2019
• Results First Posted: April 12, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL
• Time Frame: De-identified individual patient data (IPD) that under results in a publication will become available 12 months after publication and will be available for 24 months.
• Access Criteria: Sponsor approval for data sharing will be sought. Only bona fide research groups are eligible to access data as evidenced via curriculum vitae (CV) and the involvement of a qualified statistician or qualitative research scientist. Data access requests should be made via email application to the principal investigator detailing the specific requirements and the proposed research and publication plan. Data access requests will be reviewed against specific criteria by the data custodians. Decisions about requests will be made promptly and no more than 3 months after receipt of request.

Locations

US (1)