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NCT05819411Completed

Intervention to Improve HIV Self-care Among People Who Inject Drugs

Stigma-Treatment Enhanced Incentivized Directly Observed Therapy for People With HIV Who Inject Drugs

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Dec 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study will implement a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT, N=50) to refine and assess the feasibility and acceptability of an emotion regulation and communication skills intervention designed to improve engagement in HIV-care among HIV+ people who report opioid and/or stimulant use and are sub-optimally engaged in HIV care.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
42 (actual)
First submitted
22 Mar 2023
Start date
1 Sept 2021
Primary completion date
31 Jul 2025
Lead sponsor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Diseases
HIV
NCT number
NCT05819411

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 42
  • From 1 Sept 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Jul 2025
  • 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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Denying drug use in past 6 months

Other illness

  • HIV negative

Who the study is looking for

  • HIV positive
  • HIV virally unsuppressed (\>20 copies/mL) in past year or no past-year HIV viral load result
  • Opioid and/or stimulant use behavior endorsed in past 6 months
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • 18 years or older
  • English speaking

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Fenway Community Health
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status

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