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Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
HIV
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

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
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sexual BehaviorSix 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.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc.

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Brooklyn, New York, United States

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

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Brooklyn, New York, United States

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

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