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Package of Resources for Assisted Contact Tracing: Implementation, Costs, and Effectiveness

NCT05343390 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 841

Last updated 2025-02-06

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Summary

Having health workers assist HIV-infected persons with the recruitment and testing of their sexual contacts and biological children is an effective and efficient way of identifying additional HIV-infected persons in need of HIV treatment and HIV-uninfected persons in need of HIV prevention. However, in Malawi, a country with a generalized HIV epidemic, health workers lack the counseling and coordination skills to routinely assist their HIV-infected clients with these services. This study will determine how to help health workers to effectively and efficiently provide these services to their patients through a set of digital capacity-building tools.

Conditions

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced implementation package

Individual training with teaching and modeling (tablet-guided, \~8 hours) Small group training with practice and feedback (tablet-guided, \~16 hours) Ongoing continuous quality improvement sessions (tablet-guided, \~2 hours/month)

BEHAVIORAL

Standard implementation package

Individual training with teaching (facilitator-guided, \~2 hours) Small group practice (facilitator-guided, \~1 hour) Ongoing clinic support (facilitator-guided, \~30 minutes/month)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nora E Rosenberg, PhD · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-01
Primary Completion
2023-11-30
Completion
2023-11-30

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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