NCT01492829

A Community-health Worker Delivered HIV/STI Prevention Intervention for Internally Displaced Women in Leogane, Haiti

Development and Evaluation of a Community Health Worker Delivered HIV/STI Prevention Intervention for Women Living in Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Leogane, Haiti

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Women's College Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based individual and group focused HIV/STI prevention intervention with internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti. Internally displaced women will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI prevention intervention to other internally displaced women.

Detailed description

We will develop and field test a multi-component intervention that includes (1) solar-powered tablets with brief video-based educational messages and (2) 6 weekly peer-group sessions. The tablet will be programmed to analyze the data and to indicate incorrect HIV knowledge responses so the community health worker can immediately provide correct responses. This intervention involves 6 weekly women's health meetings that will cover a variety of issues pertinent to women's sexual health: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, mental health and coping, creating social change.

Conditions

• Risk Reduction Behavior
• Interpersonal Relations
• Mental Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	individual and group-based, community health worker delivered	Pre-test will be individual, tablet-based; participants will receive correct information for incorrect HIV/STI knowledge responses and will watch a brief HIV/STI educational video. This will be followed by participants attending 6 weeks of group educational sessions focused on: HIV, STI, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision-making, mental health and coping, creating social change

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2011-12-15
• Last updated: 2013-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Haiti