Ending Transmission of HIV, HCV, and STDs and Overdose in Rural Communities of People Who Inject Drugs (ETHIC)
ETHIC
2 other identifiers
interventional
306
1 country
2
Brief Summary
This study will evaluate the referral to harm reduction services (HRS) including syringe services, naloxone overdose prevention, substance use treatment referral, HIV, HCV, and STD testing and referral and linkage to care through capacity building of existing programs through client services data.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable hiv
Started Aug 2020
Typical duration for not_applicable hiv
2 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
June 8, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 11, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
August 14, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
August 16, 2023
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
August 16, 2023
CompletedResults Posted
Study results publicly available
December 12, 2024
CompletedDecember 12, 2024
August 1, 2023
3 years
June 8, 2020
September 23, 2024
November 18, 2024
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Total Participants Who Received Referrals to the Harm Reduction Services Organization
Number of participants who accept referral to the intervention (divided by the total enrolled who did not have previous engagement prior to the study with the harm reduction services organization).
2 years
Secondary Outcomes (14)
Number of Locations Where Participants Received Most of Syringes or Needles
2 years
Number of Times Sterile Syringes and/or Equipment Obtained From an Intervention
2 years
Number of Times Participants Used a Syringe or Needle That They Knew Was Used by Somebody Else
2 years
Number of Times Participants Used a Cotton, Cooker, Spoon, or Water for Rinsing or Mixing That They Knew Was Used by Somebody Else
2 years
Number of Times Participants Let Someone Else Use a Cotton, Cooker, Spoon, or Water for Rinsing or Mixing After They Used it
2 years
- +9 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (1)
Referral to harm reduction services
OTHERParticipants will be taken through the study survey and interview, blood and urine toxicology testing and given a referral to a harm reduction organization.
Interventions
Participants are referred to harm reduction services
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- years of age and older
- Injected any drug in the past 30 days
- Used any opioids non-medically in the past 30 days
- English speaking
- Able to provide informed consent at the time of the study visit
You may not qualify if:
- Less than 15 years of age
- Not injected any drug in the past 30 days
- Not used any opioids non-medically in past 30 days
- Non-English speaking
- Has not injected any opioid drug to get high in the past 30 days
- Unable to provide informed consent at the time of the study visit
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of Chicagolead
- Southern Illinois Universitycollaborator
- Community Action Place, Inc.collaborator
- New York Universitycollaborator
- University of Illinois at Chicagocollaborator
- University of Washingtoncollaborator
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)collaborator
Study Sites (2)
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois, 62901, United States
The Community Action Place, Inc.
Murphysboro, Illinois, 62966, United States
Related Publications (2)
Rains A, York M, Bolinski R, Ezell J, Ouellet LJ, Jenkins WD, Pho MT. Attitudes toward harm reduction and low-threshold healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative interviews with people who use drugs in rural southern Illinois. Harm Reduct J. 2022 Nov 19;19(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00710-9.
PMID: 36403075DERIVEDWalters SM, Bolinski RS, Almirol E, Grundy S, Fletcher S, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Ouellet LJ, Ompad DC, Jenkins W, Pho MT. Structural and community changes during COVID-19 and their effects on overdose precursors among rural people who use drugs: a mixed-methods analysis. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2022 Apr 25;17(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s13722-022-00303-8.
PMID: 35468860DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Results Point of Contact
- Title
- Mai T. Pho, MD MPH
- Organization
- University of Chicago Medicine
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Mai Pho, PhD
University of Chicago
Publication Agreements
- PI is Sponsor Employee
- No
- Restrictive Agreement
- No
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
June 8, 2020
First Posted
June 11, 2020
Study Start
August 14, 2020
Primary Completion
August 16, 2023
Study Completion
August 16, 2023
Last Updated
December 12, 2024
Results First Posted
December 12, 2024
Record last verified: 2023-08
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
- Time Frame
- Data will be available at the DCC for the time frame indicated in the data use agreement.
- Access Criteria
- Data will be shared among researchers in the Rural Opioid Initiative (ROI) cooperative agreement as described above
The ETHIC study is participating site of the Rural Opioid Initiative (ROI), a collaborative funded by NIDA. The ROI includes a Data Coordinating Center (DCC) housed at the University of Washington. The University of Chicago will submit de-identified data from the study to the DCC as covered under a data use agreement for the purposes of performing cross-site analyses using a harmonized data set. No parties outside of the ROI will have access to the combined dataset. All project proposals will be subject to approval by the ROI. The data will be available after encrypted submission to the DCC and will remain for the duration in accordance to the data use agreement.