NCT01640392

MyLife MyStyle Evaluation Project

Evaluating Locally Developed Homegrown HIV Prevention Interventions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 528 (actual)
• Sponsor: Los Angeles County Department of Public Health · Other Government
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 29 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the MyLife MyStyle Evaluation Project is to determine whether the MyLife MyStyle group-level intervention reduces HIV sexual-risk behaviors among 18- to 29-year-old African American men who have sex with men (MSM). Specifically, the project will test whether participants of the MyLife MyStyle program will report at least a 15% absolute decrease in frequency of unprotected anal sex with male partners at three and six months post-intervention compared with the wait-list control participants.

Detailed description

In Los Angeles County, as well as nationally, the primary mode of HIV transmission for African American men is sexual contact with another man. According to national data from 45 states with name-based HIV surveillance in 2006, the majority of all new HIV infections among African American males were associated with sex with other men. The disproportionate impact of HIV in AAMSM in Los Angeles County is also observed in provisional HIV surveillance data. Between 2002 and 2004, AAMSM composed 16.3% of the new HIV diagnoses among males in Los Angeles County, with an average annual HIV diagnosis rate 2.0 and 2.5 times greater than the rates of new HIV diagnosis for White and Latino MSM, respectively. In addition to demonstrating the highest HIV prevalence and incidence estimates, AAMSM also had the highest proportion of previously unrecognized HIV infection (67%) compared with all other racial/ethnic groups. Given significant and continuing disparities in HIV infection among African Americans in the United States, and specifically among AAMSM, more intervention programs must be planned, implemented, and tested in order to reduce the heavy toll of HIV/AIDS in this population. Components of these intervention programs must be culturally competent and should include promotion of HIV counseling and testing to reduce the high prevalence of unrecognized HIV infection in AAMSM. Interventions should also take into consideration the many co-factors that may hinder AAMSM from addressing their HIV risk such as racism, poverty, stigma, and homophobia. The MyLife MyStyle Evaluation Project aims to implement and evaluate the efficacy of a "homegrown" group-level intervention to reduce HIV risk (unprotected anal sex with male partners) among young African American MSM in Los Angeles County, CA.

Conditions

• Unsafe Sex

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MyLife MyStyle group-level intervention	Three 1.5-hour HIV behavioral risk-reduction group sessions conducted with up to 12 young African American/Black men (ages 18-29 years) over a 1-3 week period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2012-07-13
• Last updated: 2019-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States