Two WeChat Mini Program-based Interventions Reducing Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Heterosexual Male Factory Workers

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Behavior, Sex
• Interventions: Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos; Behavioral: WeChat Mini Program Only

• Registration Number: NCT05811611
• Lead Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong

Brief Summary

A non-blinded parallel group randomized controlled trial is conducted. Adult male full-time employees of factories in Shenzhen who have access to smartphone and WeChat are recruited by staff of the Longhua Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

After completing an online baseline questionnaire, participants will be randomized evenly to either the intervention group or the control group. Participants in the control group will have access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and sexually transmitted prevention information during the project period. In addition to those received by the control group, the Mini Program will proactively ask participants in the intervention group some simple questions to assess presence of sexual risk behaviors at Month 0 and Month 1, and invite them to watch online health promotion video(s) tailored to their current sexual risk behaviors.

All participants will complete two online follow-up surveys six and twelve months after completion of the interventions.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-12-01
• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Study First Submitted: 2023-03-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-03-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-03-31
• Study First Posted: 2023-04-13
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-13
• Primary Completion: 2023-04-30
• Study Completion: 2023-04-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 244

Inclusion Criteria

• Male at birth
• Aged 18 years or above
• Full-time employee of a factory in Shenzhen
• Having a smartphone with internet access
• Having installed or willing to install WeChat on the smartphone
• Willing to complete follow-up surveys at Month 6 and 12

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Exclusion Criteria

• Oral or anal sex with a man
• Blindness ot deafness
• Not able to communicate effectively with project staff
• Self-reported as HIV positive

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online promotion videos	WeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos	1. Having access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and STI prevention information during the project period 2. The WeChat Mini Program proactively asks questions assessing sexual risk behaviors at Month 0 and Month 1, and invite participants two watch online health promotion videos tailored to their sexual risk behaviors status.
WeChat Mini Program Only	WeChat Mini Program Only	Having access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and STI prevention information during the project period

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sexual intercourse with non-regular female sex partner	6 months	Proportion of the participants who have sexual intercourse with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months
Sexual intercourse with female sex workers	6 months	Proportion of participants who have sexual intercourse with a female sex worker in the past six months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Condomless sex with non-regular female sex partners	6 months	Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months
Condomless sex with female sex workers	6 months	Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a female sex worker in the past six months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre for Health Behaviours Research, the Chinese University of Hong Kong; 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong