A Community-health Worker Delivered HIV/STI Prevention Intervention for Internally Displaced Women in Leogane, Haiti

Phase 1

Completed

• Conditions: Risk Reduction Behavior; Interpersonal Relations; Mental Disorders

• Registration Number: NCT01492829
• Lead Sponsor: Women's College Hospital

Brief Summary

The investigators will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based individual and group focused HIV/STI prevention intervention with internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti. Internally displaced women will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI prevention intervention to other internally displaced women.

Detailed Description

We will develop and field test a multi-component intervention that includes (1) solar-powered tablets with brief video-based educational messages and (2) 6 weekly peer-group sessions. The tablet will be programmed to analyze the data and to indicate incorrect HIV knowledge responses so the community health worker can immediately provide correct responses. This intervention involves 6 weekly women's health meetings that will cover a variety of issues pertinent to women's sexual health: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, mental health and coping, creating social change.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2011-12-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2011-12-15
• Study Start: 2012-01
• Primary Completion: 2012-06
• Study Completion: 2012-07
• Status Verified: 2013-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-02-15
• Last Update Posted: 2013-02-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 and over
• capable of providing informed consent
• internally displaced (living in tent or camp)
• female

Exclusion Criteria

• male
• under 18 years old
• not able to provide informed consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HIV Knowledge	8 weeks	Brief HIV Knowledge Questionnaire (Carey \& Schroder, 2002)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Substance use	8 weeks	Measured using self-reported frequency of drug/alcohol use
Sexually Transmitted Infection Knowledge	8 weeks	Measured using Sexually Transmitted Disease Knowledge Questionnaire (Jaworski \& Carey, 2007)
Condom use	8 weeks	Measured using a self-report of frequency of condom use with regular, casual and paid sex sexual partners
Depression	8 weeks	Measured using Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2)
Social support	8 weeks	Measured using Multi-dimensional scale of perceived social support (Zimet et al., 1988)
resilient coping	8 weeks	Measured using Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair \& Wallston, 2004)
Relationship Control	8 weeks	Sexual Relationship Power Scale (Pulerwitz, Gortmaker \& DeJong, 2000)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

NEGES; 🇭🇹 Leogane, Haiti