Mater-Bronx Rapid HIV Testing Project.

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Interventions: Other: Participant choice of counselor; Other: No participant choice of counselor

• Registration Number: NCT01778374
• Lead Sponsor: University College Dublin

Brief Summary

In the M-BRiHT study we aim to implement a programme of opportunistic HIV screening in the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. We hypothesize that such a programme will be acceptable in an Irish setting. We also wish to study the factors that influence test completion or acceptance. We will utilise informative interactive video media via a touch-screen tablet device to provide pre-test counselling and then offer rapid minimally invasive testing with a cotton-bud type swab of the buccal mucosa. In doing so we will to determine absolute numbers of those attending the ED who consent to watching the interactive information video about rapid HIV test screening. We will describe the absolute number and proportion of those who watch the interactive video who subsequently proceed to have the rapid HIV test. The primary aim is to determine the cultural, gender and ethnic factors which influence the completion of such rapid HIV testing with the future objective of maximising test completion in this crucial public health area.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-09
• Study First Submitted: 2013-01-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-01-25
• Study First Posted: 2013-01-29
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-24
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-25
• Primary Completion: 2020-07
• Study Completion: 2020-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 17000

Inclusion Criteria

• All adults greater than 18 years of age who present to the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Must have capacity to consent to watch an interactive video tablet device about HIV and HIV screening test.

Exclusion Criteria

• HIV positive patients (known previous HIV positive patients).
• Acute intoxication in which capacity is impaired
• Critically unwell patients who require active or intensive resuscitation.
• Acute psychiatric disturbance in which capacity is impaired

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Participant choice of counselor	Participant choice of counselor	Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with a choice of four different counselors. These gender and ethnically diverse counselors are delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.
No participant choice of counselor	No participant choice of counselor	Participants in this arm of the study are randomized to an interactive video counselor with no choice of counselor. This is delivered via a touchscreen tablet device.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of patients agreeing to undergo a HIV screening test in the Emergency Department	24 months	Establish a programme of HIV screening in the Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Acceptability of the programme will be judged in terms of absolute numbers of patients consenting to the test.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To determine the proportions of those who test negative who may fall in to the three month seroconversion window and to determine the proportion of those who return for repeat/multiple HIV tests at three months or other time in the future.	24 months
Absolute numbers of those attending the ED who consent to watching the interactive information video about rapid HIV test screening.	24 months
Absolute number and proportion of HIV positive test results	24 months
CD4 count and viral load of newly diagnosed HIV positive patients	24 months
Number of those testing positive who have acute seroconversion illness	24 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Emergency Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.; 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland