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Microenterprise Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors in Young Adults

NCT03766165 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2020-10-22

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Summary

The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the feasibility of implementing an enhanced microenterprise intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 40 young adults. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first group ("control") will receive text messages with information on job openings. The second group ("intervention") will receive text messages with information on job openings plus HIV prevention and business educational sessions, mentored apprenticeship, a start-up grant (provided in 6 payments), and HIV behavioral economics text messages.

Conditions

  • Feasibility

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention

Participants will receive job announcements plus educational sessions, mentoring, behavioral economic text messages, and a start-up grant.

BEHAVIORAL

Control

Participants will receive job announcements only.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD MHS · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-05
Primary Completion
2019-08-19
Completion
2019-08-19

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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