NCT05033002Completed
Efficacy Testing of a Culturally Relevant Stigma Intervention With WLWH in Tanzania
Efficacy Testing of a Culturally Relevant Stigma Intervention With Women Living With HIV in Tanzania
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 May 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will test a stigma reduction intervention with women living with HIV in Tanzania.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 167 (actual)
- First submitted
- 31 Aug 2021
- Start date
- 24 Oct 2022
- Primary completion date
- 16 May 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Duke University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT05033002
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 167
- From 24 Oct 2022 to the primary completion date, 16 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 illness
- (2) Transgender women living with HIV will not be eligible to participate in this study to reduce the potential for confounding sources of stigma recognizing that a transgender identity is highly stigmatized and culturally sensitive in Tanzania. Further, it would be exceedingly difficult to recruit a sufficient sample of transgender women living with HIV to conduct an appropriate analysis.
- (3) Participants may be enrolled in other HIV-related studies except cognitive-behavioral intervention studies addressing stigma, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and/or disclosure
Other
- (1) any acute psychological or physiological distress; if there is evidence of acute psychologic and/or physiologic, they will be excluded from this study and referred to an appropriate site for evaluation and treatment.
Who the study is looking for
- The inclusion criteria for this study are:
- (1) women who are living with HIV;
- (2) age 18 (age of adulthood as defined by the Tanzanian government);
- (3) able and willing to voluntarily consent to participate in the study;
- (4) able to travel to a data collection in their local community (as described above);
- (5) demonstrate mental competence at time of informed consent;
- (6) verbally indicate that they plan to reside in their current community for at least 6 months after enrollment (necessary to prevent attrition);
- (7) score at the median or higher level on the Swahili Version of the Multidimensional Measure of Internalized HIV Stigma Scale.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania | Unknown status |
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