NCT03186183

GPS: Adaptation Trial of an HIV Prevention Counselling Program for HIV-positive and HIV-negative Gay and Bisexual Men

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Toronto Metropolitan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention peer-delivered counselling program. The GPS program has 4 parts: information provision about HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care. The adaptation grant has three goals: 1) to establish a multi-region and multi-sectoral team that can deliver the revised program across a variety of settings, 2) to learn how best to deliver this program as individual counselling program and also how to adapt this program for HIV-negative MSM, and 3) to pilot the individual program in 5 settings across Ontario and British Columbia. The research team will evaluate the pilot adaptation through mixed methods, employing a quantitative questionnaire and one-on-one semi-structured interviews.

Conditions

• HIV/AIDS
• Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	GPS program	GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention program. It has 4 components: provision of information on HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care in the local community (e.g., referrals to medical, social service, social, mental health, and substance use programs). Among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) GPS is associated with positive health outcomes including decreased likelihood of condomless anal sex (CAS), particularly CAS with serodiscordant partners. GPS is also associated with decreased fear of being rejected for insisting on condom use and increased condom use self-efficacy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-31
• Completion: 2019-07-17
• First posted: 2017-06-14
• Last updated: 2020-03-10

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: Canada