NCT05781165

Application of Augmented Reality (AR) in HIV Self-test in Men Who Have Sex With Men Community

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 349 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Objective: To apply augmented reality (AR) technology in HIV self-test and to assess its impacts in enhancing testing performance among men who have sex with men (MSM). Design: Parallel randomised controlled, open label, trial. Block randomisation with a block size of 4 would be used to allocate the study arms. Participants: men who have sex with men in Hong Kong Intervention: Self-test assisted by AR vs self-test with instruction sheets Main outcome measures: Effectiveness, usability, learnability, efficiency and satisfaction scores; rate of completion and result upload; acceptability of AR approach in assisting self-test Anticipated results: 200 MSM would be recruited with 50 and 150 in control and intervention group, respectively. The scores in the intervention group are 10% higher than the control group. Proportion of satisfied participants in the intervention group is 10% more than the control group. AR approach is feasible and acceptable to MSM for assisting in HIV self-test.

Detailed description

About 200 MSM would be recruited through community-based organisations and Internet channels where MSM socialise and seek partners. Fifty and 150 participants would be randomly assigned into the control and intervention group by block randomisation with a block size of 4, respectively. After giving informed consent, subjects would be invited to complete an online questionnaire and request for an HIV self-test kit in the online portal before randomisation. Participants in the control group would be given a standard commercially available self-test kit which included bilingual instruction sheets. Subjects in the intervention arm would be asked to use the AR element to assist the same standard commercially available self-test kit. All participants would be asked to upload the test result and complete a post-test questionnaire on the usability of the test and the AR approach. The result would be validated by an experienced research staff. Subjects with a positive result would be contacted for follow up. Main outcome measures in this study would include the confidence in performing the self-test and the usability of HIV self-testing between the two arms.

Conditions

• Hiv

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Augmented reality	Step-by-step 3D models displayed with augmented reality guiding the self-test procedures

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-08-29
• Completion: 2023-08-29
• First posted: 2023-03-23
• Last updated: 2026-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong