NCT03912753Completed
Building Mobile HIV Prevention and Mental Health Support in Low-resource Settings
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this research study is to provide help and support for mental health and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction among Romanian gay and bisexual men. GBM will participate in this study using mobile device (phones, tablets, or laptops) and will complete several confidential surveys and 8 confidential one-hour sessions, either with a trained counselor via chat or by reading about health information. This study also involves testing for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (actual)
- First submitted
- 2 Apr 2019
- Start date
- 20 May 2019
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Columbia University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT03912753
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 300
- From 20 May 2019 to the primary completion date, 31 Jan 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- GMB will be excluded if they report past-year: a) psychiatric hospitalization; b) psychotic and manic symptoms; or c) current mood-stabilizing or anti-psychotic medication prescription
- Any condition that, in the principal investigators' judgment, interferes with safe study participation.
Who the study is looking for
- Gay and bisexual men (GMB) will be eligible if they report:
- Male sex at birth and current male identity;
- At least 16 years old;
- ≥ 1 act of condomless anal sex with an HIV-positive or status-unknown male partner in the prior month;
- ≥ 2 heavy drinking days in the prior month;
- Own a mobile device (smartphone, tablet, laptop); and
- Are confirmed to be HIV-negative upon testing at study baseline.
Age in the registry: 16 years to - · Sex: Male · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romanian Association against AIDS (ARAS) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bucharest | Romania | Unknown status |
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