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Get Connected: Linking YMSM to Adequate Care Through a Multilevel, Tailored WebApp Intervention
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Get Connected and HIV Test Locator for HIV Infections. Completed, enrolled 285 participants across 3 sites.
Detailed Summary
Get Connected (GC) is an online brief intervention that employs individual and systems-level tailoring technology to reduce barriers to HIV prevention care (e.g., HIV/STI testing, PrEP) for YMSM. The deployment of GC through a mobile-friendly WebApp seeks to optimize online interventions' acceptability, accessibility, availability, long-term affordability among youth. The investigators will enroll self-reported HIV-negative or sero-status unaware, sexually active YMSM (ages 15-24) across three cities and randomize them into the GC intervention condition or to an attention-control condition. Assessments will be collected at 30 days and at 3, 6, 9 and 12 month follow-up.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The investigators designed the intervention to help participants increase their HIV risk awareness, promote self-appraisal and increase motivation for engaging in prevention services, problem solving barriers to accessing care, and locating culturally-sensitive providers. Intervention content is customized based on participants' socio-demographic characteristics, HIV/STI testing history and testing motivations, and recent sexual behaviors.
The investigators will use a HIV/STI testing locator as the attention-control condition. The test locator provides a list of HIV testing sites in a city or zipcode.