NCT06096519Active, not recruiting
Effectiveness and Implementation of Text Messaging to Improve HIV Testing in Adolescents
Effectiveness and Implementation of Text Messaging to Improve Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Testing in Adolescents
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will test the effectiveness of a text message-based intervention on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing behaviors among adolescent (13-19 year old). To test the effectiveness on HIV testing behaviors we will randomize participants to the treatment or an attention matched information only control arm and asses our primary effectiveness outcome of objective HIV testing (e.g., photo of test results).
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 360 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 May 2023
- Start date
- 13 Jun 2024
- Primary completion date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06096519
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 360
- From 13 Jun 2024 to the primary completion date, 2 Jul 2026
- 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
- Previous lifetime testing for HIV or an STI OR no testing since last sexual experience
- Currently on PrEP
Other illness
- HIV positive
Who the study is looking for
- Have penetrative or oral sex in their lifetime
- 13-19 years old
- reads in English at a 8th grade level
- HIV negative or unknown status
- own a cell phone with an unlimited MMS plan and plan to have the same number during the study
- can provide informed assent, as shown on a capacity to consent assessment
- live in the U.S. or territories.
Age in the registry: 13 years to 19 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Evaluating a Multimedia Messaging Intervention to Increase Adolescent HIV Testing: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness Implementation Study.JMIR Res Protoc · 2026 · PMID 42149818
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