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HOPE Social Media Intervention for HIV Testing and Studying Social Networks

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02944877

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Brief summary

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This study \[HOPE: Harnessing Online Peer Education\] seeks to determine the efficacy of using online social networks to scale peer community leader models to increase HIV prevention within African-American and Latino men who have sex with men. The peer community leader model, which teaches community popular opinion leaders about how to disseminate behavior changes messages throughout the community, has been proven to increase HIV prevention behaviors. Social media and online communities, such as Facebook, may be a cost-effective platform for scaling these models. Primarily upper middle-class White populations used the Internet in its early years, however, Internet use within African-American and Latino households has recently increased dramatically, especially on social media. People using the Internet may be at the highest risk for contracting HIV and are using novel Internet approaches to find sex partners, such as through social media. This is the first study to examine the effectiveness of the HOPE social media intervention to increase HIV testing among at-risk groups in the United States.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02944877
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
900 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 89 Years
Sex
Male
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Nov 30, 2016
Primary completion
Jan 30, 2021
Completion
Jan 30, 2023
Last update posted
Oct 28, 2024

2016 – 2023

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of California Irvine Irvine California 92697

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