GPS: Adaptation Trial of an HIV Prevention Counselling Program for HIV-positive and HIV-negative Gay and Bisexual Men

Summary

GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention peer-delivered counselling program. The GPS program has 4 parts: information provision about HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care. The adaptation grant has three goals: 1) to establish a multi-region and multi-sectoral team that can deliver the revised program across a variety of settings, 2) to learn how best to deliver this program as individual counselling program and also how to adapt this program for HIV-negative MSM, and 3) to pilot the individual program in 5 settings across Ontario and British Columbia. The research team will evaluate the pilot adaptation through mixed methods, employing a quantitative questionnaire and one-on-one semi-structured interviews.

Conditions

• HIV/AIDS
• Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

GPS program

GPS is a sexual health promotion and HIV prevention program. It has 4 components: provision of information on HIV and sexually transmitted infections, motivational interviewing counselling, sexual health behavioural skills building, and linkage to care in the local community (e.g., referrals to medical, social service, social, mental health, and substance use programs). Among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) GPS is associated with positive health outcomes including decreased likelihood of condomless anal sex (CAS), particularly CAS with serodiscordant partners. GPS is also associated with decreased fear of being rejected for insisting on condom use and increased condom use self-efficacy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Health Initiative for Men

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Regional HIV/AIDS Connection

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• AIDS Committee of Toronto

  collaborator OTHER

• Gay ZONE

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Ottawa Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Victoria

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Windsor

  collaborator OTHER

• Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• MAX Ottawa

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Toronto Metropolitan University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Trevor Hart, PhD · Toronto Metropolitan University

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-09-01

Primary Completion

2019-03-31

Completion

2019-07-17

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations