Love, Sex & Choices: A Web Series on Mobile Devices to Reduce Black Women's HIV Risk
NCT ID: NCT02493647
Last Updated: 2019-08-22
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
814 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2015-09-30
2018-09-30
Brief Summary
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The following hypotheses are to be tested: 1) The LSC treatment arm will show lower unprotected sex risk, meaning lower frequency of unprotected sex (vaginal + anal) with high risk partners at 6 months post intervention compared to an attention control arm 2) The LSC treatment arm will show higher participation in HIV testing at 6 months post intervention compared to the control.
If effective, this video intervention could be rapidly implemented and brought to scale at low cost via the Internet, widely reaching young urban women with the goal of reducing HIV risk behavior and increasing HIV testing.
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Detailed Description
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AIM 1 is to conduct a RCT to evaluate the effect of the guide enhanced LSC on HIV sex risk behavior compared to a true attention control.
AIM 2 is to evaluate effect of the guide enhanced LSC on HIV testing. AIM 3 is to compare the reach, meaning enrollment, engagement, retention, risk behaviors, and demographics of high risk, young urban Black women recruited online to those obtained by conventional recruitment: with and without research team assistance, to determine whether online recruitment reaches subgroups not reached in conventional recruitment. Data from Facebook© ads, QR codes, site specific URL on flyers, tracking video viewing, retention data, and risk behaviors will help evaluate efforts to reach and retain high risk women.
AIM 4 is to specify a model of the effect of the guide enhanced LSC series on high risk sex scripts and sex risk. Storytelling can promote behavior change but the study of the mechanism of effect is still young, and entertainment-education concepts of effective film are not yet well integrated into HIV prevention science. Identification with film characters and transportation, characterized by emotional and cognitive empathy and merging, are known to mediate cognitive shifts.
The following hypotheses are to be tested in a RCT in predominately young urban Black women \[1) The guide enhanced LSC treatment arm will show lower unprotected sex risk, meaning lower frequency of unprotected sex (vaginal + anal) with high risk partners at 6 months post intervention compared to an attention control arm (2) The guide enhanced LSC treatment arm will show higher participation in HIV testing at 6 months post intervention compared to the control. Investigators will learn by secondary analyses, whether (3) there are differences in reach by Facebook© compared to conventional recruitment, and 4) Retention of at risk women recruited online will be similar to those recruited in the field and 5) whether identification and transportation will lower high risk sex scripts as a mediator of lower USR and greater HIV testing.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Love, Sex, & Choices
Love, Sex, and Choices (LSC) is an engaging 12-episode video series to reduce HIV risk in young, adult predominately Black women. A peer video guide was added to the end of LSC episodes to provoke viewers to question their own sex scripts and consider their own need for change. Investigators propose to conduct a two-arm clinical trial of guide enhanced LSC impact on reducing unprotected sex with high risk partners and increasing HIV testing in Black women in high HIV prevalence neighborhoods.
Love, Sex, & Choices
Investigators propose to conduct a two-arm clinical trial of guide enhanced LSC impact on reducing unprotected sex with high risk partners and increasing HIV testing in Black women in high HIV prevalence neighborhoods. Undiagnosed HIV is a significant factor fueling the epidemic. Recruitment into the study will be via Facebook or traditional on the ground.
Attention-Time Control
The Control is a 12-episode popular web miniseries with a storyline that promotes respectful relationships. time and frequency are matched to the active intervention.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Love, Sex, & Choices
Investigators propose to conduct a two-arm clinical trial of guide enhanced LSC impact on reducing unprotected sex with high risk partners and increasing HIV testing in Black women in high HIV prevalence neighborhoods. Undiagnosed HIV is a significant factor fueling the epidemic. Recruitment into the study will be via Facebook or traditional on the ground.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* speak and read English
Exclusion Criteria
* older than 29 years old
* currently pregnant
* women who have already participated in the study
18 Years
29 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
NIH
Northeastern University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Rachel Jones, RN, PhD
Associate Professor
Principal Investigators
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Rachel Jones, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Northeastern University
Locations
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Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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LSCR012015
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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