NCT06913660Completed
ALHIV Smartphone Game Study
A Smartphone Game to Increase Engagement in Care Among African Adolescents Living With HIV
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 31 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a cluster-randomized controlled trial that aims to conduct comprehensive feasibility testing of a smartphone game in a sample of 120 adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) ages 15-21 in Kisumu, Kenya, to determine whether the game influences behavioral mediators of engagement in care and sexual risk avoidance and reduction (including knowledge, attitudes, behavioral intentions, and self-efficacy).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 120 (actual)
- First submitted
- 26 Mar 2025
- Start date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Primary completion date
- 7 Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Emory University
- Diseases
- HIV
- NCT number
- NCT06913660
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 120
- From 7 Apr 2025 to the primary completion date, 7 Mar 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
- Last recorded viral load test \>12 months prior to recruitment date
Other
- Does not have basic literacy in English (Grade 3-4 on the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale)
- Sibling to an adolescent already enrolled in study
- Sibling to adolescent that participated in formative research
- Participant in formative research to inform study
- Participant in any Tumaini game activities
- Enrolled in boarding school
Who the study is looking for
- Aged 15-21 at time of recruitment
- Diagnosed with HIV and aware of HIV status
- Initiated ART at least 6 months prior
- Accesses HIV-related care at intervention arm CCC
- VL above 50 copies/ml at last test, with last test conducted within 12 months prior to recruitment date
Criteria the registry did not label
- Adolescents, male and female, aged 15-21 in Kisumu County (n=120)
Age in the registry: 15 years to 21 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEMRI Clinical Research Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kisumu | Kenya | Unknown status |
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