Does Preference-based HIV Testing Increase Uptake in High Risk Populations?

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Conditions studied: HIV Testing

In brief

Despite worldwide efforts to promote HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT), rates of testing remain low. Understanding how high risk groups decide to test and adapting available testing options to their preferences has the potential to broadly improve HCT uptake and cost-effectiveness. This study proposes to use a Discrete Choice Experiment, a survey method increasingly used by health economists for the design of patient-centered health care options, to rigorously quantify HIV testing preferences among two high-risk populations, identify their preferred testing options, and evaluate, in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT), the effect of a preference-based HIV counseling and testing (PB-HCT) intervention on testing uptake. At a time of heightened focus on health preferences research and patient-centered care, this study evaluates the critical link between preference-based intervention design and efficacy. If the RCT indicates that PB-HCT increases testing rates, the testing options evaluated in this R01 can be offered to high-risk populations in the study area, and the preference elicitation method and tools can be used to inform the design of testing options that better match the preferences of other high-risk populations and in other settings.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02714140

Run by

University of South Carolina

People needed

1194

Starts

2018-01-03

Expected to finish

2020-10-31

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-18

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Males who work as Kilimanjaro mountain porters, Females who regularly work at a bar, hotel or restaurant establishment and serve alcohol to patrons.
• Eligible participants will be ages 18+, reside in Moshi, Tanzania and have no plans to leave the study area.

You may not qualify if…

• Participants who are not able to see will be excluded owing to the visual nature of the survey presented to elicit preferences.

Where it is running

• Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• University of South Carolina — Columbia, South Carolina, United States
• Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute — Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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