HIV Prevention Peer Navigation for Justice Involved Women

NCT ID: NCT04680390

Last Updated: 2025-12-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-09-07
• Study Completion Date: 2024-11-06

Brief Summary

Women involved in the criminal justice system have complex and highly stigmatized sexual and substance use risk profiles and are particularly vulnerable to, and experience, high rates of HIV. Criminal justice settings represent an important opportunity to address health disparities in HIV by linking women, who experience multiple, intersecting stigmas with innovative biomedical HIV prevention strategies, like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The investigators propose to develop and test a peer-led patient navigation intervention for criminal-justice involved (CJI) women at risk of HIV acquisition to reduce intersectional stigma and improve uptake and linkage to PrEP services, thereby increasing access to PrEP and decreasing PrEP-related disparities.

Detailed Description

Stigma persists as a principal factor shaping HIV risk. Women involved in the criminal justice system have complex and highly stigmatized sexual and substance use risk profiles and are particularly vulnerable to, and experience, high rates of HIV. Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is an efficacious HIV prevention strategy, however, women at high-risk of HIV infection in the United States (US) are largely absent from national efforts to improve PrEP awareness and uptake. Criminal justice settings represent an important opportunity to address disparities in HIV by linking high-risk women, who experience multiple, intersecting stigmas with innovative biomedical HIV prevention strategies, like PrEP. Peer-led patient navigation interventions have demonstrated efficacy in building trust and reducing stigma and discrimination-related barriers to healthcare engagement, and hold strong potential to address multiple, intersecting stigmas and other multifactorial and complex barriers to PrEP acceptability, linkage, and uptake for criminal justice-involved women. The investigators propose to develop and test a peer-led patient navigator PrEP linkage intervention for women at risk for HIV acquisition who are on probation in San Francisco. Intervention development and study design will be guided by our team's pilot research, the Stigma and HIV Disparities Framework, and the PrEP Continuum of Care model. Study aims are to:1) Determine the content and structure of a peer-led PrEP screening and linkage navigation intervention (Project kINSHIP) for high-risk criminal justice-involved (CJI)-women; 2) Refine and test the content and structure of the kINSHIP intervention for CJI-women; and 3) Assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of the kINSHIP intervention on internalized stigma and the PrEP continuum of care in a pilot randomized trial. Formative qualitative work with key stakeholders, including women on probation, probation staff, and medical/public health staff in Aim1 will guide intervention development and testing in Aim 2. In Aim 3, the investigators will examine the primary outcome of PrEP service linkage and secondary outcomes such as time to linkage, PrEP prescription/initiation, and PrEP adherence/persistence. The investigators will explore how intersectional stigma may moderate intervention effects on linkage to PrEP. The proposed study has the potential to: 1) reduce the impact of intersectional stigma as a barrier to service care engagement, 2) inform PrEP care continuum estimates for criminal justice-involved women as well as identify barriers, and 3) create an intervention suitable for large-scale efficacy testing and translation to other criminal justice settings.

Conditions

HIV Infections; Stigma, Social

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Active-kINSHIP navigation intervention

kINSHIP is a peer-led navigator intervention to address intersectional stigma and improve PrEP treatment initiation and engagement for justice-involved women. The key components of the kINSHIP intervention are to: 1) increase social support; 2) increase self-efficacy in accessing PrEP services; 3) enhance access to healthcare services; 4) improve adaptive coping skills to manage experiences of intersectional stigma.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Peer Navigators Addressing INtersectional Stigma to Improve HIV Prevention Among Criminal-Justice Involved Women

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

kINSHIP is a peer-led navigator intervention to address intersectional stigma and improve PrEP treatment initiation and engagement for justice-involved women. The key components of the kINSHIP intervention are to: 1) increase social support; 2) increase self-efficacy in accessing PrEP services; 3) enhance access to healthcare services; 4) improve adaptive coping skills to manage experiences of intersectional stigma.

Control-Standard Care

The control arm will be standard-of-care, which is as-needed case management for justice-involved women.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard of care engagement practices

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The control arm will be standard-of-care, which is as-needed case management for justice-involved women. The goals of case management services are to reduce recidivism, mitigate behavioral challenges, strengthen public safety, and build self-sufficiency skills. Case managers refer clients to appropriate services in the community (e.g., housing, food).

Interventions

Peer Navigators Addressing INtersectional Stigma to Improve HIV Prevention Among Criminal-Justice Involved Women

kINSHIP is a peer-led navigator intervention to address intersectional stigma and improve PrEP treatment initiation and engagement for justice-involved women. The key components of the kINSHIP intervention are to: 1) increase social support; 2) increase self-efficacy in accessing PrEP services; 3) enhance access to healthcare services; 4) improve adaptive coping skills to manage experiences of intersectional stigma.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Standard of care engagement practices

The control arm will be standard-of-care, which is as-needed case management for justice-involved women. The goals of case management services are to reduce recidivism, mitigate behavioral challenges, strengthen public safety, and build self-sufficiency skills. Case managers refer clients to appropriate services in the community (e.g., housing, food).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Women in San Francisco Adult Probation, ages 18-49 will be eligible if they:

• self-identify as HIV-negative;
• endorse risk behaviors in the past 6 months that call for consideration of PrEP per the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention risk indices;
• are English-Speaking.

Exclusion Criteria

• Self-reported HIV infection;
• already on PrEP;
• observable cognitive/developmental delays or severe mental illness that would interfere with consent or participation.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 49 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Emily Dauria, PhD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

University of California San Francisco

San Francisco, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

R34DA050480

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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20-30358

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id