Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
- Enrollment
- 452
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Number of Participants Who Present Children for HIV Testing
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving small financial incentives will motivate parents to test their children for HIV.
Detailed Description
The study will be a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 5 arms with equal allocation to each arm: no incentive, or one of 4 different levels of financial incentive. We will randomize 800 parents with children of unknown status at HIV treatment clinics in Western Kenya.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Diagnostic
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Parent/caregiver receiving HIV care
- •Parent/caregiver has one or more children <13 years old
- •Child is HIV exposed (parent/caregiver report or clinic confirmation)
- •Caregiver reports child's HIV status is unknown
Exclusion Criteria
- •The investigators reserve the right to exclude any potential enrollee who is deemed to be at high personal risk, or whose children are at high personal risk, of interpersonal violence, by study participation .
Arms & Interventions
No incentive
No incentive
KES financial incentive 1
Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing
Intervention: Financial incentive (Behavioral)
KES financial incentive 2
Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing
Intervention: Financial incentive (Behavioral)
KES financial incentive 3
Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing
Intervention: Financial incentive (Behavioral)
KES financial incentive 4
Kenyan Shillings conditional cash transfer upon HIV testing
Intervention: Financial incentive (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Number of Participants Who Present Children for HIV Testing
Time Frame: 2 months
Number of caregivers who present child(ren) to complete HIV testing at the study clinic within 2 months of recruitment; test results will be recorded in a study questionnaire
Number of Days Participants Take to Bring Children for HIV Testing
Time Frame: 2 months
Number of days it took between randomization and caregiver presenting the child for HIV testing
Secondary Outcomes
- Number of Male Participants Who Present Children for HIV Testing(2 months)
- Number of Caregivers With One Child Who Present Children for HIV Testing(2 months)
- Number of Caregivers With Age More Than Median Presenting Children for HIV Testing(2 months)
- Number of Participants With More Than 1 Child Who Present Children for HIV Testing(2 months)
- Number of Caregivers With Age Less Than Median Presenting Children for HIV Testing(2 months)
- Number of Female Participants Who Present Children for HIV Testing (Females)(2 months)
Investigators
Jennifer Slyker
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health
University of Washington