Using HIV Risk Assessment Tool to Promote HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Beijing: a Social Media-based Randomized Trial

National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC1 site in 1 country4,500 target enrollmentOctober 12, 2017

ConditionsHIV/AIDS HIV Infections Social Media

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: HIV/AIDS
Sponsor: National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC
Enrollment: 4500
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: The proportion of HIV testing during the study period
Last Updated: 8 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a HIV risk assessment tool to promote HIV testing and to reduce high risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM). It hypothesizes that the social media-based HIV risk assessment tool can increase 20% HIV testing proportion during the six months follow-up period.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

October 12, 2017

End Date

May 2018

Last Updated

8 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

Male

Investigators

Sponsor

National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China CDC

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•Male at birth.
•Having had homo-sexual behaviors (anal/oral) in the past 6 months before enrollment.
•An age of 18 years or older.
•Living in Beijing, China.
•Self-reporting HIV negative or unknown.
•Willingly participating into the baseline survey and the six months follow ups.
•Agreeing not to share the research link to others.
•Owning a mobile phone and having had downloaded the social networking Application Blued before enrollment.

Exclusion Criteria

•Not accepting blood sampling within the study period.
•Reporting injecting drugs use in the past six months before enrollment.
•Being currently involved in other HIV behavioral interventions for MSM.
•Having a specific plan to leave from Beijing in the next 6 months.
•Self-reporting female.
•Other reasons the investigators deem make participation either detrimental to the participants or the study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The proportion of HIV testing during the study period

Time Frame: 1 month

The numerator is the number of participants who come to the specific HIV testing clinics for HIV test during the study period, the denominator is the number of participants randomized per group.