Appalachian Partnership to Reduce Disparities (Aim 2)

Part of paid clinical trials in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Sponsor
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Study ID
NCT04378439
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Peer Navigation — BEHAVIORAL
    First, as health advisors, community health leaders will raise awareness of HIV, STIs, and HCV and local prevention and care services and help social network members access services. Thus, the community health leader will describe to the process for HCV testing, and how providers are required to maintain confidentiality. As opinion leaders, community health leaders will reframe health-compromising and bolster health-promoting norms and expectations about testing and use of other prevention and care services. Each community health leader will also conduct formal in-person group activities with their social network members. Our partnership decided that each community health leader will also hold at least 4 formal group sessions during the 12 months of intervention
  • mHealth — BEHAVIORAL
    In addition to in-person individual and group activities, community health leaders will use mHealth platforms preferred by each social network member (i.e., Facebook , Instagram, testing, and/or GPS-based mobile apps) to communicate with them during the intervention. They will use social media to plan activities and to support use of needed prevention and care services. For example, when planning a group activity (described above), the community health leader will use social media to remind social network members about the activity and help them problem solve barriers to attending. A community health leader and social network member may also communicate "in-real-time" via social media about the process of participating in a syringe services program or accessing PrEP.

Study Details

By combining two strategies (i.e., peer navigation and mHealth) into a complete, culturally compatible, bilingual intervention to increase the use of needed HIV, STI, and HCV prevention and care services among racially/ethnically diverse GBMSM and transgender women in rural Appalachia. Study Investigators anticipate that participants in the intervention group, relative to counterparts in the delayed-intervention group, will demonstrate increased HIV, STI, and HCV testing.

Key Dates

Start date
Apr 1, 2022
Status verified
May 2026
Primary completion
May 31, 2027
Completion
May 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
141 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION

Arms

  • Active Comparator: intervention group
    7 community health leaders; 56 social network members
  • Active Comparator: delayed-intervention
    7 community health leaders; 56 social network members

Primary Outcome Measure

Number of participants who have Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing [ Time Frame: baseline ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Wake Forest University Health SciencesWinston-SalemNorth Carolina27157
Lisa L Norfleet
[email protected]
336-713-5074
Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)
Beth A. Reboussin, PhD,BS, MS (SUB_INVESTIGATOR)
Aimee M. Wilkin, MD (SUB_INVESTIGATOR)

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