NCT04318769Active, not recruiting
An Affirmative Coping Skills Intervention to Improve Mental and Sexual Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
An Affirmative Coping Skills Intervention to Improve Mental and Sexual Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (AFFIRM): A Stepped Wedge Waitlist Crossover Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Apr 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
AFFIRM is an 8-session manualized group coping skills intervention focused on reducing sexual risk behaviours and psychosocial distress among SGMY. AFFIRM is delivered by two facilitators (primarily social workers and peers) through a combination of education and rehearsal (i.e., simulation of real-life experiences) in a manner that affirms participants' sexual and gender minority identities and experiences. AFFIRM is being tested in a five-year trial using a stepped wedge waitlist crossover design, where all participants receive the intervention in clusters.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 300 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 Mar 2020
- Start date
- Apr 2017
- Primary completion date
- Mar 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Toronto
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04318769
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 300
- From Apr 2017 to the primary completion date, Mar 2025
- 7 sites 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
- Assessed to be in crisis (i.e., high risk of suicidality)
- Warrenting a more intensive intervention
Who the study is looking for
- Aged 14 to 29 years at time of screening
- Identifies as a sexual and/or gender minority
- Reads, writes, and speaks fluent English
- Is interested in participating in the 8-session AFFIRM intervention
Age in the registry: 14 years to 29 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (7)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Family Health Team Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamilton | Canada | Unknown status |
| COMPASS Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamilton | Canada | Unknown status |
| Reach Out Centre for Kids - Positive Space Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oakville | Canada | Unknown status |
| Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Sherbourne Health Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| The 519 Church Street Community Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
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