NCT05080972

Mobile HIV Prevention App for Black Women

In-the-kNOW (Novel Approaches to Optimizing Women's Health): A Mobile Application to Optimize HIV Prevention and Sexual/Reproductive Health Communication Among Black Women in the Southern U.S.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Emory University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 44 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Black women have a significantly higher risk of acquiring HIV compared to their non-Black counterparts. The purpose of this study is to refine and test a mobile HIV Prevention and Reproductive Health app developed specifically for Black women.

Detailed description

The overall goal in implementing this study will be to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the in-the-kNOW mobile app. The app will be refined using preliminary data obtained through prior research with Black women in which their perspectives towards the use of an HIV and sexual health mobile app were ascertained. Preliminary data obtained from a Community Advisory Board (CAB), which will consist predominately of Black women will guide refinement of the content and features included within the mobile app, whilst ensuring that the app is tailored towards the needs and perspectives of Black women. This will be a randomized study with quantitative data collected through surveys, and qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews.

Conditions

• Mobile Phone Use
• Hiv
• Stigma, Social

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	in-the-kNOW mobile app	in-the-kNOW is a mobile app with restricted access through a single-use registration code. The app will be developed with regular input from Black women enrolled in Atlanta Healthy Start Initiative (AHSI). The app will have culturally- and contextually targeted HIV prevention and optimal sexual health messaging. Each participant will have 4 months to engage with the app, with e-reminders in time intervals preferred by the participants (a minimum of 3 times per week) via push notifications. During the 4-month study period, participants will receive push notifications to encourage the use of all app domains: My Logger, My Test, My Resources, and My Circle. Research staff will complete 2-month check-ins via phone call or video chat with participants.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The control condition will be a one-time virtual women's health counseling session with a healthcare provider. Participants will get information on 1. Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI)/HIV prevention, 2. Family planning, and 3. General health promotion (e.g., exercise and diet). The control condition provides access to HIV prevention materials that are publicly available but that do not offer the dynamic and individually customized features of the health communication/new media research approach proposed herein. Control group participants will continue to receive the usual care associated with Atlanta Healthy Start Initiative (AHSI) enrollment. The control group will not have access to intervention content (e.g. commodity ordering) until after the study has concluded. Research staff will complete 2-month check-ins via phone call or video chat with participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-05
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2021-10-18
• Last updated: 2026-03-16
• Results posted: 2026-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States