NCT04320186

Community Influences Transitions in Youth Health (CITY) Health II - Center for the Study of Community Health

Community Influences Transitions in Youth Health II - Center for the Study of Community Health

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 334 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this protocol is to develop and evaluate an HIV prevention Entertainment Education (EE) intervention aimed at reaching underserved, at-risk African Americans, aged 18-25 years, living in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods in the Birmingham area.

Detailed description

The goal of this 5 year project is to promote HIV testing and improve HIV-related risk behaviors (e.g. condom use, substance use before sex, regular Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing) via population-sensitive and population-specific HIV prevention videos that are appealing, evidence-based, scalable, and sustainable to the target population. Formative research was conducted in Phase I (Year 1-2), to pre-test the questionnaire and gather in-depth data (via focus groups, intercept interviews, and individual structured interviews) to inform intervention development. Phase 2 of the project involved developing, delivering, and subsequently evaluating the efficacy of peer-driven EE HIV prevention messaging to broader social networks via a social media platform, with the platform contingent on formative data. An HIV education video series, "The Beat HIVe", was produced and served as intervention materials for the quasi-experimental research project. Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) was used to access and use the social networks of high-risk youths as channel and agents for change. RDS is a recent innovative adaptation of chain-referral network sampling that provides peer-driven access to hard-to-reach subpopulations while reducing sampling biases associated with conventional snowball sampling.

Conditions

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Entertainment education
OTHER	video	video

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-03
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2020-03-24
• Last updated: 2023-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States