NCT05796622

Evaluating an Innovative HIV Self-testing Service With Counseling Provided by a Chatbot

A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating an Innovative HIV Self-testing Service With Online Real-time Instruction, Pre-test and Post-test Counselling Provided by a Fully-automated Artificial Intelligence Chatbot (HIVST-Chatbot)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 564 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A parallel-group non-inferiority randomized controlled trial will then be conducted to evaluate the performance of HIVST-Chatbot. A total of 528 Hong Kong Chinese speaking men who have sex with men (MSM) aged ≥18 years who have access to live-chat applications are recruited from multiple sources. Those who are diagnosed as HIV positive are excluded. Participants are 1:1 randomized into the intervention group (n=264) or the control group (n=264). The research team will implement the HIVST-Chatbot (HIVST services with real-time counselling provided by a fully-automated artificial intelligence Chatbot) in the intervention group and HIVST-OIC (HIVST with real-time counselling provided by trained administrators) in the control group. Participants completed two telephone surveys at baseline and six months afterwards.

Conditions

• Behaviors, Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	HIVST-Chatbot (HIV self-testing services with counseling provided by a Chatbot)	Promote and implement HIVST-Chatbot
BEHAVIORAL	HIVST-OIC (HIV self-testing services with counseling provided by administrators)	Promote and implement HIVST-OIC

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-16
• Primary completion: 2024-02-28
• Completion: 2024-02-28
• First posted: 2023-04-03
• Last updated: 2023-04-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong