MI With Text Messaging to Reduce Sexual Risk and Hazardous Drinking Among MSM

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Conditions studied: Alcohol; Harmful Use, Sex, Unsafe

In brief

This is a small pilot study to provide effect size estimates for a brief intervention designed to reduce hazardous drinking and sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men. The intervention consists of an "in-person" brief motivational intervention followed by a series of text messages related to alcohol and sexual risk reduction. The primary outcome is heavy drinking episodes and frequency of condomless anal intercourse at 3 months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03755661

Run by

Boston University Charles River Campus

People needed

24

Starts

2018-10-09

Expected to finish

2020-03-09

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-06

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 50. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• At least 1 heavy drinking episode or consumption of more than 14 drinks per week over the past month
• At least 1 condomless anal sex episode in past 3 months
• Score of 3 or greater on the Kinsey Scale (Kinsey et al., 1948) indicating at least "equally heterosexual and homosexual". Scale ranges from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual)

You may not qualify if…

• Alcohol treatment currently or in past 3 years
• Bipolar disorder or schizophrenia treatment
• Exclusive monogamous relationship

Where it is running

• Boston University Department of Psychological and Brain Science — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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