NCT05704764Active, not recruiting
Using the Ending Self-Stigma Intervention to Reduce Internalized Stigma Among People Living With HIV Who Use Substances
IRIS: Intervention to Reduce Internalized Stigma (IRIS) Among People Living With HIV Who Use Substances
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test an intervention to reduce stigma among people living with HIV who use opioids and cocaine. The main question it aims to answer is: \- Does reducing internalized stigma about HIV and/or drug use lead to improved HIV care outcomes? After a year spent adapting an existing intervention to be applied specifically among people living with HIV who use substances, 70 participants will be randomized to receive either treatment-as-usual or the newly adapted intervention. The intervention itself will consist of five one-on-one sessions with a trained interventionist to discuss and work through the stigmas people commonly associate with HIV and/or substance use.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 70 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 Jan 2023
- Start date
- 17 Feb 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Friends Research Institute, Inc.
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT05704764
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 70
- From 17 Feb 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Mar 2026
- 2 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
- Does not meet all inclusion criteria.
Who the study is looking for
- 18+ years of age
- English speaking
- Living with HIV
- Self-report recent drug and/or alcohol use OR currently enrolled in substance use treatment
- Willing and able to provide full informed consent
- Responds affirmatively to having ever experienced one or more of the following types of stigma related to HIV status or SU: (1) enacted, (2) anticipated, and/or internalized.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
| Friends Research Institute, Inc. Satellite Office Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newhall | United States | Unknown status |
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