NCT01994603

Expansion to Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention in Women

Preventing FAS/ARND in Russian Children/Expansion to Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention in Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oklahoma · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 44 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial will pilot test intervention strategies to increase utilization of HIV testing and gain knowledge for designing a clinical trial to evaluate prevention strategies to reduce HIV sexual transmission in the general population in Russia. The study will assess whether external (cost, convenience) or internal factors (low perception of own risk, reluctance to identify a partner as at-risk, fear of stigma) drive Russian women's reluctance to be tested and if peer support impacts their decision. A randomized experimental manipulation, comparing opt-in vs. bundled opt-out testing approaches, followed by focus group discussions, followed by a second-chance testing offer will be used to inform these questions. The answers will enable the international research team to engineer and then test an HIV testing promotion strategy in Russia. The project will collect preliminary data for a larger study to develop an evidence-based program to reduce the HIV transmission in this high risk population.

Detailed description

A mixed methods research design combining qualitative and quantitative data collection methods will be used to increase the understanding of barriers to HIV testing, identify promising strategies to increase testing, generate research hypotheses, and design a future randomized clinical trial to evaluate HIV prevention targeted to at-risk women in the general population in Russia. The qualitative methods include structured interviews and a focus group participation to assess women's reasons for being the tested and possible prevention strategies. The quantitative methods include observation/recording of women's testing behaviors.

Conditions

• HIV
• AIDS
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Opt-in or Opt-out testing	Study participants will be offered a health screening onsite.
BEHAVIORAL	Focus Group	Study participants will be invited to participate in a focus group discussion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-09-01
• Completion: 2015-09-01
• First posted: 2013-11-26
• Last updated: 2016-01-14

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: United States, Russia