NCT06173544Completed
HIV Engagement and Adolescent Depression Support (HEADS-UP)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This pilot study will individually randomize 105 adolescents living with HIV 1:1:1 to standard of care, adapted intervention, or enhanced intervention. The intervention is called the Friendship Bench Intervention is a counseling intervention for depression and engagement in HIV care.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 106 (actual)
- First submitted
- 7 Dec 2023
- Start date
- Jul 2024
- Primary completion date
- Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06173544
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 106
- From Jul 2024 to the primary completion date, Oct 2025
- 5 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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Age
- Less than 13 or greater than 18 years of age
Who the study is looking for
- age 13-18
- diagnosed with HIV (vertically or horizontally)
- scored ≥ 13 on the self-reported and previously used BDI-II
- living in the clinic's catchment area with intention to remain for \> 1 year
- willing to provide consent (age 18 or 16-17 years old and married (emancipated minors per Malawi law) or assent with parental consent (age 13-17)
Age in the registry: 13 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (5)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area 18 Health Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lilongwe | Malawi | Unknown status |
| UNC Project Malawi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lilongwe | Malawi | Unknown status |
| Kawale Health Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lilongwe | Malawi | Unknown status |
| Area 25 Health Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lilongwe | Malawi | Unknown status |
| Lighthouse Health Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lilongwe | Malawi | Unknown status |
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