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Filling Gaps in the HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Cascade Through Counseling

NCT06710171 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2024-11-29

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Summary

This study s objective is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a guide to facilitate counseling about HIV prevention, focusing on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). PrEP is a medication taken by HIV-negative persons to avoid an HIV infection.

Healthcare providers (including but not limited to physicians and nurses) who see gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) will be randomly assigned to completing a short online training versus continuing their usual activities.

The online training consists of modules containing brief information about PrEP, and about how to address concerns and difficulties that GBM face to get PrEP and to take care of their sexual health.

The investigators will ask healthcare providers to answer questionnaires before and after the research activities take place, and a member of the research team will interview some of them at the end.

Every time a healthcare provider has a counseling session with a GBM, they will facilitate putting a research coordinator in touch with the person receiving the counseling. Those GBM will also be asked to fill out questionnaires.

These activities will take place in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Conditions

  • Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
  • Counseling
  • Sexual and Gender Minorities

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Counseling

The intervention consists of using a theory-informed approach to user-centered brief counselling about PrEP uptake, designed specifically to help busy front-line providers in public health, sexual health and primary care settings advance clients along the PrEP cascade (specifically, supporting clients who meet evidence-based criteria for PrEP in accepting provider recommendations to use it) and provide linkage to care for related conditions. The intervention will be delivered to GBM through participating healthcare providers who would have completed an online training designed by the research team.

OTHER

List of resources

This list includes webpages which contain generic information about GBMs sexual health, PrEP, mental health, information about province-wide info lines for the general public about sexual health and/or educational resources for providers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Unity Health Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Darrell H.S. Tan, MD, FRCPC, PHD · St. Michael's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-31
Primary Completion
2025-03-31
Completion
2025-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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