NCT04661878Completed
Piloting a Smartphone App to Improve Treatment Adherence Among South African Adolescents Living With HIV
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Jun 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall goal of this pilot randomized-controlled trial (RCT) is to pilot MASI (MAsakhane Siphucule Impilo Yethu; Xhosa for "Let's empower each other and improve our health"), an ART adherence-supporting smartphone app with 50 adolescents and young adults living with HIV to assess its feasibility and acceptability and to explore preliminary effects on ART adherence and social support.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Dec 2020
- Start date
- 21 Jun 2022
- Primary completion date
- 15 Mar 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Duke University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04661878
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 50
- From 21 Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, 15 Mar 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
- Failure to meet any of the inclusion criteria
Other
- Child dissent despite parent, legal guardian, caregiver informed consent
Who the study is looking for
- Age \>= 15 years and \<= 21 years
- Knows HIV status (Screened adolescents who do not know their HIV status will receive information on free voluntary HIV counseling and testing services)
- Living with HIV
- Has been prescribed medication to treat HIV
- Not attending school for learners with special needs (e.g., School of Skills)
- Has not repeated a grade in school more than once
- Has a smartphone that can download apps
- Feels comfortable using an app with content in English
- No plan to move outside of Cape Town in the next six months
- Has not previously participated in the MASI app testing phase of our study
- Able to successfully install the MASI app on their smartphone
Age in the registry: 15 years to 21 years · Sex: All · Does not accept 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Cape Town Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cape Town | South Africa | Unknown status |
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