NCT04710901Completed
UTECH: Machine Learning for HIV Prevention Among Substance Using GBMSM
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Nov 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This project seeks to develop and test the acceptability, appropriateness and feasibility of uTECH, a novel social media "big data" machine learning intervention for HIV-negative substance-using sexual and gender minority people who have sex with men that aims to reduce HIV transmission risk by integrating biomedical and behavioral risk reduction strategies, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention and medication assisted treatment (MAT) for substance use harm reduction
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 388 (actual)
- First submitted
- 9 Nov 2020
- Start date
- 24 Nov 2020
- Primary completion date
- 31 May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT04710901
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 388
- From 24 Nov 2020 to the primary completion date, 31 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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Prior treatment
- Have not used a gay-specific social media/networking/dating app in the past 3 months to seek sexual and drug use partners
Other illness
- HIV status is positive
Age
- Under 18 years of age
Other
- Does not currently identify as a gender or sexual minority
- Have not had anal and/or oral sex with a man in the past 3 months
- Have not used an illicit substance (such as methamphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy) or legal substance (such as alcohol or marijuana) in the past 3 months
- Have not had sex while using any substance in the past 3 months
- Are not willing to participate in audio-recorded interviews over Zoom
- Do not feel comfortable answering questions in English
- Do not use an Android or iOS smartphone
- Do not feel comfortable with downloading an app that captures a variety of text-based information from their phone over the course of 12-months
- Are not currently living and/or sleeping in Los Angeles County
- Am not willing to participate in this study.
Who the study is looking for
- 18 years of age or older
- Current sexual identity as a sexual minority
- Current gender identity as a gender minority
- Have had anal and/or oral sex with a man in the past 3 months
- Use an illicit substance (such as methamphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy) OR a legal substance (such as alcohol or marijuana) in the past 3 months
- Have had sex while using any substance in the past 3 months
- Use a gay-specific social media/networking/dating app in the past 3 months to seek sexual and drug use partners
- Willing to participate in audio-recorded interviews over Zoom
- Comfortable answering questions in English
- Use an Android or iOS smartphone
- Negative or Unsure about HIV status
- Comfortable with downloading an app that captures a variety of text-based information from their phone over the course of 12-months
- Currently living and/or sleeping in Los Angeles County
- Willing to participate in this study.
Age in the registry: 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UCLA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
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