Actively Recruiting
Keeping it LITE: Exploring HIV Risk in Vulnerable Youth With Limited Interaction and Digital Health Intervention
Led by Hektoen Institute for Medical Research · Updated on 2023-05-08
6000
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
214 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
H
Hektoen Institute for Medical Research
Lead Sponsor
N
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Despite advances in HIV diagnostics, care and prevention strategies, infection rates among adolescent and young adult sexual and gender minorities (SGM) continue to rise in the United States (US). There is an urgent need to describe the epidemiology and trajectories of HIV acquisition in this population and to offer age and culturally appropriate scalable prevention interventions to those at highest risk of infection in the US. This project will engage and retain young SGM in an innovative longitudinal cohort, enroll participants in a dynamic established digital health retention platform (HMP; HealthMPowerment), monitor HIV risk and prevention behaviors and explore the socioecological factors that influence the use of new HIV prevention technologies (UG3 phase), while also allowing targeted testing of novel digital health interventions (UH3 phase). In Aim 1, the investigators will enroll and retain a large (n=6000; 3000/year), diverse cohort of sexually active, SGM adolescents and young adults, ages 13-34, using innovative digital recruitment, engagement and retention strategies. Over the course of the study, the investigators will longitudinally characterize the sexual behavior, HIV transmission risk, and PrEP uptake trajectories of SGM youth utilizing epidemiological trajectory analyses to identify the most effective points of intervention (Aim 2). This study will capitalize upon productive existing partnerships and digital health expertise to articulate the drivers of the ongoing HIV epidemic among the most vulnerable populations in the US in order to identify the most effective, expeditious and scalable strategies to address this ongoing public health crisis.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Keeping it LITE: Exploring HIV Risk in Vulnerable Youth With Limited Interaction and Digital Health Intervention
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- For young adults ages 18-34: self-identified sexual and gender minority (SGM) young adults who meet at least one of the following:
- Condomless anal or vaginal intercourse with a cisgender man in the last 6 months
- Sex with cisgender men and bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the last 6 months
- Anal or vaginal sex with a known HIV-infected partner in the last 6 months
- For adolescents ages 13-17: self-identified SGM adolescents who have engaged in any sexual activity (oral, anal, or vaginal sex)
You will not qualify if you...
- Under age 13
- Over age 34
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
S
Sybil Hosek, PhD
CONTACT
A
Audrey French, MD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
N/A
Model
N/A
Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
0
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