Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: HIV
• Interventions: Behavioral: BTWB intervention; Behavioral: Cancer prevention and screening

• Registration Number: NCT01980771
• Lead Sponsor: State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center

Brief Summary

This program utilizes a community-engaged research approach to implementing and evaluating a program that seeks to reduce sexual risk behavior among Black adult heterosexual men. The investigators aims are to assess the impact of this linguistically and culturally tailored HIV prevention program on the sexual risk of heterosexual, African American men aged 18 and older, to assess the intervention's impact on the more proximal social and psychosocial variables that the program is designed to change, and to identify key contextual level factors that may impact the intervention's impact across segments of this priority population.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-11
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-11-04
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-11
• Primary Completion: 2017-02
• Study Completion: 2017-02-01
• Results First Submitted: 2018-08-16
• Results First Submitted QC: 2018-10-16
• Results First Posted: 2018-11-14
• Status Verified: 2021-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-10-25
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 860

Inclusion Criteria

• Unprotected sex in the past three months
• Identify as Black or African American

Exclusion Criteria

• Having been in an HIV prevention research study in the last six months
• Reporting a history in the past five years of injection drug use
• Reporting a history in the past five years of having sex with other men
• Reporting an HIV-positive serostatus
• Inability to understand spoken English.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
BTWB intervention	BTWB intervention	Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or active control condition. Men recruited from experimental barbershops receive a single-session group intervention focused on HIV prevention.
Cancer prevention and screening	Cancer prevention and screening	Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or control condition. Men recruited from control barbershops receive information on cancer prevention and control.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sexual Behavior	Six month follow-up	Self-reported sexual behavior is the number of participants that report any unprotected anal and/or vaginal sex in the past ninety days.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

SUNY Downstate Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc.; 🇺🇸 Brooklyn, New York, United States