Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk and Substance Use
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- HIV
- Sponsor
- Hunter College of City University of New York
- Enrollment
- 143
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Number of Unprotected Sex Acts in the Past 90 Days
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The objective is to expand and refine an intervention for transgender women (TW) into a 7-session individual- and group-based intervention that is scalable for community settings to reduce sexual risk and substance use and to increase stigma-coping and risk-buffering behaviors among TW in NYC. The investigators will pilot test the intervention with 20 TW and subsequently, conduct a randomized controlled trial with 240 TW to compare the intervention to a wait list control condition.
Investigators
H. Jonathon Rendina
Assistant Professor
Hunter College of City University of New York
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years of age or older
- •Identify as a transgender woman (assigned male at birth and currently identify as female)
- •Report 3 or more acts of unprotected anal or vaginal sex in the past 90 days and at least 1 in the past 30 days
- •Report 5 or more days of illicit drug use in the past 90 days and at least 2 in the past 30
- •Provide contact information
- •Reside in the NYC metropolitan area
- •Able to complete a survey in English (Spanish-language assistance can be provided by bilingual staff)
- •Provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Unstable, serious psychiatric symptoms
- •Current suicidal/homicidal ideation
- •Evidence of gross cognitive impairment
- •Currently enrolled in a drug abuse treatment or enrolled in an HIV risk or drug use intervention study
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Number of Unprotected Sex Acts in the Past 90 Days
Time Frame: every 4 months over the course of 8 months
Decreases from Baseline in the Number of Unprotected Sex Acts in the past 90 days at 4 and 8 months
Number of Days of Drug Use in the Past 90 Days
Time Frame: every 4 months over the course of 8 months
Decreases from Baseline in the Number of Days of Drug Use in the past 90 days at 4 and 8 months