NCT05123274Completed
Mobilizing Social Network Resources for HIV Care Support
Mobilizing Social Network Resources for HIV Care Support: Development and Testing of an Intervention for HIV+ MSM in St. Petersburg, Russia
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The intervention study will recruit 100 out-of-care HIV+ men who have sex with men in online and in community settings located throughout St. Petersburg, Russia. After completing baseline assessments, participants will be randomized to either an individual care counseling (ICC) comparison condition or ICC plus a social support mobilization (SSM) intervention. In each intervention, participants will attend five main and two booster sessions that underscore the benefits of medical care engagement, counter the effects of internalized intersectional stigma and promote resilience, and help participants develop and mobilize social resources supportive of HIV care. Support mobilization will begin by assisting participants develop care-supportive bonds with other group members, friends who are also living with HIV, and connections made with LGBT and other non-governmental organizations. They will also be guided in developing and expanding supportive links with affirmative friends, family members, and other resources. In this way, the intervention will bolster care-related social support resources, resilience, and feelings of self-worth. Assessments administered at baseline will be repeated 6 and 12 months post-intervention, and in-depth followup interviews will be conducted with a subset of 20 participants to elicit feedback about the intervention experience. The study will investigate whether the SSM intervention will produce greater preliminary evidence of benefit on the primary outcome of medical care attendance in the past 6 months and on secondary outcomes of having undetectable viral load, ART adherence, and psychosocial well-being.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 94 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Nov 2021
- Start date
- 15 Jan 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT05123274
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 94
- From 15 Jan 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Oct 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
- reports being HIV-positive with at least one HIV medical care visit in the prior 6 months or reports adherence to \>95% of prescribed ART in the past month
- reports no history of sex with males in the prior 12 months
Other illness
- reports being HIV-negative or unknown HIV status
Age
- age 17 or younger
Other
- not male at birth
- participation in the earlier pilot test of the intervention
Who the study is looking for
- age 18 or older
- male at birth
- reports being HIV-positive with no HIV medical care visit in the prior 6 months or adhering to \<95% of ART medication in the past month
- reports a history of sex with males in the prior 12 months
- not a participant in the earlier pilot test of the intervention
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Male · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical College of Wisconsin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milwaukee | United States | Unknown status |
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