Intervention to Assist MSM Disclose HIV Status to Casual Sex Partners
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: HIV
In brief
Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain disproportionately represented in the national HIV/AIDS statistics. Little progress has been made in understanding the nuances of MSM sexual behavior or communication that may be perpetuating the spread of HIV. Non-disclosure of an HIV-positive status may be a key factor responsible for male-male HIV transmission. There are no known intervention programs whose primary focus is to help MSM develop requisite skills to disclose their status to casual sexual partners. The development of such interventions is essential because of the numerous repercussions for not disclosing when one is HIV-positive such as legal prosecution and the transmission of HIV. In a previous intervention development study (R21MH067494) the research team created and tested a 4 session intervention found to be promising for increasing disclosure to casual sexual partners. The purpose of the proposed research is to further refine and enhance our HIV disclosure intervention (DI) designed to increase disclosure to casual sexual partners and reduce sexual risk taking behaviors among HIV-positive MSM; assess the relative effectiveness of a disclosure intervention to an attention control case management group (ACCM) for HIV-positive MSM; examine the effects of the intervention over time; explore differential treatment responses to the disclosure intervention and ACCM on the basis of ethnicity, age, and education level as well as examine the mediating effect of baseline frequency of sexual activity, severity of substance abuse at baseline, and stigmatized fear on the relationship between intervention type and the outcome. Finally, the investigators will test how treatment engagement, retention and expectations predict subsequent disclosure and risky sexual outcomes.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02116049
- Run by
- University of South Florida
- People needed
- 340
- Starts
- 2009-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- HIV-positive
- Male
- Have sex with other men
- Over the age of 18
- Sexually active in the past 90 days
- 2 or more partners in last 12 months
- Indicate an interest in learning more about disclosing serostatus to casual sex partners
- Speak and understand English
- Plan on living in Tampa area for at least 1 year
You may not qualify if…
- Women
- HIV-negative
- Children under the age of 18
- Men who exclusively have sex with women
- Those who cannot speak and understand English
- Those who have not been sexually active or are behaviorally monogamous
Where it is running
- University of South Florida — Tampa, Florida, United States
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