Appalachian Partnership to Reduce Disparities (Aim 2)

NCT ID: NCT04378439

Last Updated: 2025-12-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

141 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-04-01

Study Completion Date

2026-05-31

Brief Summary

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By combining two strategies (i.e., peer navigation and mHealth) into a complete, culturally compatible, bilingual intervention to increase the use of needed HIV, STI, and HCV prevention and care services among racially/ethnically diverse GBMSM and transgender women in rural Appalachia.

Study Investigators anticipate that participants in the intervention group, relative to counterparts in the delayed-intervention group, will demonstrate increased HIV, STI, and HCV testing.

Detailed Description

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This CBPR study will advance prevention science and practice through testing an innovative intervention to promote and support the use of needed HIV, STI, and HCV prevention and care services among GBMSM and transgender women; and developing priorities and recommendations to improve their health that will be disseminated to inform public health practice, research, and policy. By integrating peer navigation and mHealth strategies, the proposed study provides a unique opportunity to improve health among vulnerable, hidden, and neglected populations living in rural Appalachia. Findings from this research may inform strategies and approaches to address other health disparities in other rural populations.

Conditions

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HIV/AIDS STI HCV

Keywords

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PrEP

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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intervention group

7 community health leaders; 56 social network members

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Peer Navigation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

First, as health advisors, community health leaders will raise awareness of HIV, STIs, and HCV and local prevention and care services and help social network members access services. Thus, the community health leader will describe to the process for HCV testing, and how providers are required to maintain confidentiality. As opinion leaders, community health leaders will reframe health-compromising and bolster health-promoting norms and expectations about testing and use of other prevention and care services.

Each community health leader will also conduct formal in-person group activities with their social network members. Our partnership decided that each community health leader will also hold at least 4 formal group sessions during the 12 months of intervention

mHealth

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In addition to in-person individual and group activities, community health leaders will use mHealth platforms preferred by each social network member (i.e., Facebook , Instagram, testing, and/or GPS-based mobile apps) to communicate with them during the intervention. They will use social media to plan activities and to support use of needed prevention and care services. For example, when planning a group activity (described above), the community health leader will use social media to remind social network members about the activity and help them problem solve barriers to attending. A community health leader and social network member may also communicate "in-real-time" via social media about the process of participating in a syringe services program or accessing PrEP.

delayed-intervention

7 community health leaders; 56 social network members

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Peer Navigation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

First, as health advisors, community health leaders will raise awareness of HIV, STIs, and HCV and local prevention and care services and help social network members access services. Thus, the community health leader will describe to the process for HCV testing, and how providers are required to maintain confidentiality. As opinion leaders, community health leaders will reframe health-compromising and bolster health-promoting norms and expectations about testing and use of other prevention and care services.

Each community health leader will also conduct formal in-person group activities with their social network members. Our partnership decided that each community health leader will also hold at least 4 formal group sessions during the 12 months of intervention

mHealth

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

In addition to in-person individual and group activities, community health leaders will use mHealth platforms preferred by each social network member (i.e., Facebook , Instagram, testing, and/or GPS-based mobile apps) to communicate with them during the intervention. They will use social media to plan activities and to support use of needed prevention and care services. For example, when planning a group activity (described above), the community health leader will use social media to remind social network members about the activity and help them problem solve barriers to attending. A community health leader and social network member may also communicate "in-real-time" via social media about the process of participating in a syringe services program or accessing PrEP.

Interventions

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Peer Navigation

First, as health advisors, community health leaders will raise awareness of HIV, STIs, and HCV and local prevention and care services and help social network members access services. Thus, the community health leader will describe to the process for HCV testing, and how providers are required to maintain confidentiality. As opinion leaders, community health leaders will reframe health-compromising and bolster health-promoting norms and expectations about testing and use of other prevention and care services.

Each community health leader will also conduct formal in-person group activities with their social network members. Our partnership decided that each community health leader will also hold at least 4 formal group sessions during the 12 months of intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

mHealth

In addition to in-person individual and group activities, community health leaders will use mHealth platforms preferred by each social network member (i.e., Facebook , Instagram, testing, and/or GPS-based mobile apps) to communicate with them during the intervention. They will use social media to plan activities and to support use of needed prevention and care services. For example, when planning a group activity (described above), the community health leader will use social media to remind social network members about the activity and help them problem solve barriers to attending. A community health leader and social network member may also communicate "in-real-time" via social media about the process of participating in a syringe services program or accessing PrEP.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* reside in one of the rural Appalachian catchment countiesreside in one of the rural Appalachian catchment counties
* be ≥18 years of age
* report being assigned male sex at birth and having had sex with at least 1 man in past 12 months
* provide informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Wake Forest University Health Sciences

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Scott D. Rhodes, Ph.D, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Locations

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Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Scott D. Rhodes, Ph.D, MPH

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 336-713-5080

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Lisa L Lewis

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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IRB00065116

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id