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Combining Social Network Strategies and Routine Substance Use Screening

NCT07414459 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2026-05-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to improve health care for people who may have HIV or substance use disorders by bringing two services to a large community health center in Chicago. First, the clinic will begin offering routine screening for substance use to all patients. Second, the study will offer a social network-based program that helps people identify friends or partners who may need support and link them to care. The goal is to help more people learn their HIV status, reduce HIV levels in the community, and connect people with substance use treatment when needed. The study will also look at how well these services can be added into everyday clinic practice and what is needed to keep them going over time.

Conditions

  • HIV
  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Substance use disorder screening

Implement a routine SUD screening at the FQHC.

BEHAVIORAL

Social network intervention

Social network intervention (SNI) to identify individuals who are viremic, have SUD, or both and link them to harm reduction and HIV continuum of care services. There are three main activities that make up the SNI: 1) recruiting, screening, and interviewing "index participants"; 2) training the index participants to recruit others; 3) screening and interviewing persons who present a valid recruitment voucher given to them by an index participant.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Howard Brown Health Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Chicago

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, San Diego

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Britt Skaathun · University of California, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-07-31
Primary Completion
2028-04-30
Completion
2029-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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