The EMERGE Project: Feasibility of Assessing Economic and Sexual Risk Behaviors Using Text Messages in Young Adults

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

17 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-07-07

Study Completion Date

2017-09-19

Brief Summary

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As part of the development of the Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project, the study team will conduct a single-group study to examine the feasibility of assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors using text messages. The team will enroll approximately 20 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are African-American, homeless, out-of-school, and un/under-employed. Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks. The study team will collect information about the number of participants who respond to the weekly survey, the number of questions to which they respond in each survey, and the number of hours from sending a survey to participants to receiving their response. As an exploratory aim, participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment. The study team will obtain qualitative feedback from participants regarding text messages they most and least liked. The survey is not designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the text message intervention.

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Detailed Description

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As part of the development of the Engaging Microenterprise for Resource Generation and Health Empowerment (EMERGE) Project, the study team will conduct a single-group study to examine the feasibility of assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors using text messages. The study team will enroll approximately 20 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are African-American, homeless, out-of-school, and un/under-employed. Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks. The study team will collect information about the number of participants who respond to the weekly survey, the number of questions to which they respond in each survey, and the number of hours from sending a survey to participants to receiving their response. As an exploratory aim, participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment. The study team will obtain qualitative feedback from participants regarding text messages they most and least liked. The survey is not designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the text message intervention. The single-group study is anticipated to start in August 2017.

Conditions

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Feasibility

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Survey and informational text messages

Text-message survey and informational text messages

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Text-message survey and informational text messages

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors. Participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment.

Interventions

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Text-message survey and informational text messages

Participants will complete a text-messaged survey each week for 5 weeks assessing economic and sexual risk behaviors. Participants will also receive 3 informational text messages each week for 5 weeks on HIV prevention and economic empowerment.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Individuals will be included in the study if, at the time of enrollment, they are:
* African American
* Aged 18-24
* Living in Baltimore City
* Experiencing homelessness in the past 12 months
* Employed fewer than 10 hours per week
* Not enrolled in school
* Ownership of a mobile phone with text-messaging capacity
* Reporting at least one episode of unprotected sex in prior 6 months or one other personal or sexual partner HIV risk factor within prior 6 months (STI diagnosis, sex while high or drunk, sex exchange, illicit drug use, alcohol dependence).