HIV Prevention Among Latino MSM: Evaluation of a Locally Developed Intervention

NCT01626898 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 304

Last updated 2016-02-03

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Summary

Wake Forest University is partnering with Chatham Social Health Council (a community-based organization) to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of Hombres Ofreciendo Liderazgo y Apoyo (HOLA) en Grupos (Men Giving Leadership and Support in Groups), a Spanish-language HIV risk behavior intervention for Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural North Carolina.

Participants in the HOLA intervention, when compared to those in the comparison intervention, will report: increased consistent use of condoms during sexual intercourse; increased use of HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD) counseling, testing, and treatment services; greater knowledge concerning the impact of HIV on communities (including Latino and MSM)and HIV risk behaviors and prevention strategies; more positive attitudes towards abstinence and condom use; increased self-efficacy to use and assert the use of condoms with sex partners; increased condom-use mastery scores; decreased barriers to risk reduction (e.g. health-compromising aspects of machismo); and enhanced partner and provider communication and sexual negotiation skills.

Conditions

  • Risk Reduction Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

HOLA en Grupos

HOLA en Grupos consists of four 4-hour group sessions that combine presentations by facilitators who are trained Latino MSM community members, activities, and scenes from a DVD, and is delivered over a period of two weeks to groups of about 10 participants. HOLA en Grupos is designed to increase HIV prevention knowledge, condom use and mastery, decrease barriers to risk reduction (e.g., health-compromising aspects of machismo), enhance sexual negotiation skills, and increase use of HIV testing, counseling, and treatment services among intervention participants.

BEHAVIORAL

General Health intervention (comparison intervention )

The Spanish comparison condition consists of four Spanish-language 4-hour group sessions designed to increase participants' knowledge about cancer, diabetes, alcohol abuse, and cardiovascular disease, and is delivered over a period of two weeks to groups of about 10 participants.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott D Rhodes, PhD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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