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Onboarding Positives and PrEP Users to Engage Negatives (OPPEN): Peer-driven Education to Link YMSM of Color to PrEP

NCT05356910 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2025-07-23

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Summary

Onboarding Positives and PrEP users to Engage Negatives (OPPEN) is an intervention to train young men who have sex with men (YMSM) of color living with HIV or using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to promote PrEP use among HIV-negative YMSM of color in their social networks. This pilot randomized controlled trial will evaluate OPPEN's acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effect on PrEP care engagement among YMSM of color.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

OPPEN

OPPEN training sessions (three small-group and two one-on-one sessions) build skills for effective peer PrEP outreach through didactic instruction, group discussions, role-play exercises, and goal planning and problem-solving activities.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Condition

Control sessions (three small-group and two one-on-one sessions) build skills for diet and nutrition behavior change through didactic instruction, group discussions, and goal planning and problem-solving activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Heather A Pines, PhD · University of California, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
34 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-07
Primary Completion
2024-07-31
Completion
2024-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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