ADAPT-POL New Orleans: Adaptation of Prevention Techniques With Popular Opinion Leader

Completed

Conditions studied: HIV Infections

In brief

Adopting and Demonstrating the Adaptation of Prevention Techniques (ADAPT) is a supplement to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community Based Organization Program Announcement 04064 (PA 04064). The purpose of ADAPT is to improve the understanding of the processes needed for adapting evidence-based behavioral interventions to fit new conditions or populations and to pilot the CDC-developed adaptation guidance. The ADAPT project responds to concerns from the field that existing interventions do not address the HIV prevention needs of their specific population. This project seeks to develop guidance for agencies to engage in the evidence-based adaptation of interventions previously shown to be effective in evaluation settings for use in real world applications. The New Orleans AIDS Task Force (NO/AIDS) is one of five grantees funded to use the adaptation guidance to adapt an intervention packaged by the CDC's Replicating Effective Programs and disseminated by CDC's Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions. The agency will adapt Jeff Kelly's Popular Opinion Leader (POL) intervention (Kelly, 2004; Kelly et al., 1991) for use in Internet venues with seropositive men who identify ethnically/racially as other than White/Caucasian who have sex with other men (men who have sex with men \[MSM\] of color). Kelly's POL intervention is a community-level, evidence-based HIV prevention intervention that originally targeted gay and bisexual men in smaller cities throughout the United States. Kelly's intervention seeks to identify and enlist the support of well-known and well-liked opinion leaders to take on risk reduction advocacy roles. Opinion leaders attend sessions to learn how to engage in risk reduction conversations with people in their own social networks. The opinion leaders help to reshape social norms to encourage safer sex by helping to create a social environment in which MSM feel comfortable and empowered to make decisions to avoid high-risk sexual behaviors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00252109

Run by

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

People needed

27

Starts

2004-07-01

Expected to finish

2009-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-08-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Seropositive
• Men who have sex with other men
• African American
• At least 18 years of age
• Report having sexual contact with a man (any type of sexual contact in which either partner achieved orgasm) within the last year
• Those who frequent viable venues for recruiting pre-and post-implementation questionnaire respondents

You may not qualify if…

• MSM who are not willing to identify themselves to study staff as seropositive Hispanic MSM may be excluded.
• Those under 18 years of age will be excluded from participation due to the study design precluding direct applicability of hypotheses and intervention to both adults and children due to different cognitive development, HIV prevalence levels, and social networks.
• Serious mental illness which makes the individual unsuitable for participation
• Under the influence of drugs or alcohol which makes the individual unsuitable for participation
• Anyone who does not meet the inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• New Orleans AIDS Task Force — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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