NCT04217174Completed
An Avatar-based Mobile Phone Intervention to Promote Health in African American MSM
A Mobile Phone Intervention Using a Relational Human Talking Avatar to Promote Multiple Stages of the HIV Care Continuum in African American MSM
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The investigators propose to determine the efficacy of "My Personal Health Guide," a theory-based innovative talking relational human Avatar mobile phone application to engage HIV-positive AAMSM in adherence and retention in care. Providing an empathetic talking Avatar source of HIV-related information, motivation, and behavioral skills that is as private and convenient as their own mobile phone might produce a high impact by overcoming barriers to HIV adherence and retention in care such as stigma and health literacy.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 315 (actual)
- First submitted
- 31 Dec 2019
- Start date
- Mar 2020
- Primary completion date
- May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University of Illinois Chicago
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04217174
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 315
- From Mar 2020 to the primary completion date, May 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
- Cannot speak English
- Decline to participate
- Participated in the usability and Beta testing phase of the app refinement that preceded this RCT
- Do not have a routine clinic appointment scheduled during the observation time.
Who the study is looking for
- Self-reported African American MSM
- 18 to 34 years old
- Smartphone owners
- Prescribed ART
- Have a viral load detectable within the past 4 weeks or self-reported or provider-reported history of adherence or treatment engagement problems.
- Participants may be initiating ART or already on ART.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 34 years · Sex: Male · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois at Chicago Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
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