GPS: Adaptation Trial of an HIV Prevention Counselling Program for HIV-positive and HIV-negative Gay and Bisexual Men
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 50
- Locations
- 11
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in the number of serodiscordant condomless anal sex acts
Study Overview
Brief Summary
GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention peer-delivered counselling program. The GPS program has 4 parts: information provision about HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care. The adaptation grant has three goals: 1) to establish a multi-region and multi-sectoral team that can deliver the revised program across a variety of settings, 2) to learn how best to deliver this program as individual counselling program and also how to adapt this program for HIV-negative MSM, and 3) to pilot the individual program in 5 settings across Ontario and British Columbia. The research team will evaluate the pilot adaptation through mixed methods, employing a quantitative questionnaire and one-on-one semi-structured interviews.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- Male
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •aged 18 years or older
- •self-identify as a man
- •self-identify as gay, bisexual, queer, same-gender-loving, or a man who has sex with men
- •report having engaged in condomless anal sex in the last 3 months
- •able to speak, read, and aurally comprehend English
- •depending on the study site, report HIV-negative or HIV-positive status
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in the number of serodiscordant condomless anal sex acts
Time Frame: Past 2 months (measured at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up)
Participants will be asked to report the number of times they engaged in anal sex in the without a condom with a partner of opposite or unknown HIV status in the past two months as part of a self-report questionnaire. This self-report questionnaire is administered at baseline, post-treatment (which is approximately 6 weeks after baseline), and at 3-month follow-up in order to measure changes over time.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in the number of sexual partners(Past 2 months (measured at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up))
- Change in HIV viral load status(Most recent viral load test (asked at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up))
- Change in the number of receptive condomless anal sex acts(Past 2 months (measured at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up))
- Change in the number of insertive condomless anal sex acts(Past 2 months (measured at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up))
- Change in use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)(Present use (asked at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up))
Investigators
Trevor Hart
Principal Investigator
Toronto Metropolitan University