Get Connected Efficacy Trial

Summary

Get Connected (GC) is an online brief intervention that employs individual and systems-level tailoring technology to reduce barriers to HIV prevention care (e.g., HIV/STI testing, PrEP) for YMSM. The deployment of GC through a mobile-friendly WebApp seeks to optimize online interventions' acceptability, accessibility, availability, long-term affordability among youth. The investigators will enroll self-reported HIV-negative or sero-status unaware, sexually active YMSM (ages 15-24) across three cities and randomize them into the GC intervention condition or to an attention-control condition. Assessments will be collected at 30 days and at 3, 6, 9 and 12 month follow-up.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Get Connected

The investigators designed the intervention to help participants increase their HIV risk awareness, promote self-appraisal and increase motivation for engaging in prevention services, problem solving barriers to accessing care, and locating culturally-sensitive providers. Intervention content is customized based on participants' socio-demographic characteristics, HIV/STI testing history and testing motivations, and recent sexual behaviors.

BEHAVIORAL

HIV Test Locator

The investigators will use a HIV/STI testing locator as the attention-control condition. The test locator provides a list of HIV testing sites in a city or zipcode.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of North Carolina

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Michigan

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Minnesota

  collaborator OTHER

• Emory University

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  collaborator OTHER

• Baylor College of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Pennsylvania

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD · University of North Carolina

• Jose A Bauermeister, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

• Rob B Stephenson, PhD · University of Michigan

• Patrick S Sullivan, PhD · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

24 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-11-01

Primary Completion

2021-12-15

Completion

2022-06-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations