Theory-based Text Messaging to Reduce Methamphetamine Use and HIV Risks Among MSM

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Methamphetamine Abuse, HIV

In brief

Participants receive culturally relevant and specifically tailored text messages based on the behavioral change theoretical constructs of Social Support Theory, Health Belief Model, and Social Cognitive Theory. Participants are randomized into one of three conditions for an 8-week intervention period: Group 1: culturally relevant theory-based text messages interactively transmitted by peer health educators (TXT-PHE); or, Group 2: the same culturally relevant theory-based text messages transmitted by automation (TXT-Auto); or, Group 3: assessment-only (AO) control with no theoretically based text messages.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02008526

Run by

Friends Research Institute, Inc.

People needed

286

Starts

2014-01-01

Expected to finish

2017-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Self-identified MSM
• Between the ages of 18 and 65 years
• Methamphetamine use within the previous 3 months
• Unprotected anal intercourse (insertive or receptive) with a non-primary male partner in the previous 6 months
• Not currently in treatment or seeking methamphetamine abuse treatment
• Able and willing to fully charge a cellular phone daily
• Able and willing to provide informed consent
• Able and willing to comply with study requirements

You may not qualify if…

• Does not identify as a MSM
• Not between the ages of 18 and 65 years
• Has not used methamphetamine in the previous 3 months
• Has not had unprotected anal intercourse (insertive or receptive) with a non-primary male partner in the previous 6 months
• Currently in treatment or seeking methamphetamine abuse treatment
• Unable or unwilling to fully charge a cellular phone daily
• Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
• Unable or unwilling to comply with study requirements
• Unable to understand the Informed Consent Form
• Determined to have a more serious psychiatric condition (SCID verified) that is beyond the safe enrollment of study procedures

Where it is running

• Friends Community Center, a division of Friends Research Institute, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 90028 — Los Angeles, California, United States

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