NCT04813484

Addressing Violence and HIV Care Among Transgender Women

Addressing Violence and HIV Cascade of Care Outcomes Among Transgender Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 11 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project seeks to adapt and pilot a trauma-informed combination intervention named 'Kickin' it with the Gurlz' that was designed with, for, and by transgender women of color to improve HIV care continuum outcomes. The intervention components include a violence and gender affirmation screening tool, a peer-led adaptation of Seeking Safety, and individual-level peer navigation sessions. The project will examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary promise of the multicomponent by conducting a one-arm pilot with 30 transgender women of color who have a history of trauma. Participants will complete baseline, immediate post-intervention, and 3-month follow up assessments.

Detailed description

This project seeks to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the trauma-informed combination care intervention to improve HIV care continuum outcomes including the development of community-informed strategies for subsequent RCTs. We will conduct a one-arm pilot of the adapted multicomponent trauma-informed intervention named "Kickin it with the Gurlz." This project will collect feasibility and acceptability data related to identifying, recruiting, enrolling, intervening with, and retaining participants (i.e. recruitment length, screening procedures, feasibility of conducting sessions, intervention acceptability, retention rates, feasibility of verifying self-reported and medical chart review data on viral load and exit interviews with participants and staff at program conclusion). The study will recruit 30 participants into the pilot study. Participants will complete baseline, end of program, and 3-month post-intervention follow-up surveys. Exit interviews and interviews with key stakeholders will identify strategies for implementing trauma-informed HIV treatment efficacy trials with transgender women of color within close-knit communities, such as acceptable and feasible control conditions, acceptable and feasible violence and gender affirmation screening, biomedical confirmation methods, contamination concerns, and potential changes needed within existing health care systems.

Conditions

• Acceptability of Health Care
• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Kickin it with the Gulz	The intervention is a multicomponent intervention, including a screening, groups, and individual sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-15
• Primary completion: 2023-05-15
• Completion: 2023-05-15
• First posted: 2021-03-24
• Last updated: 2025-04-24
• Results posted: 2025-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States