Mobile Augmented Screening Tool to Increase Adolescent HIV Testing and Linkage to Care

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: HIV Testing

In brief

Because adolescents and young adults face markedly increased HIV risk yet frequently do not test, we propose to complete the Mobile Augmented Screening (MAS) tool designed to increase HIV testing, and to facilitate linkage to care and ongoing prevention education. This tool will help clinicians address undiagnosed youth HIV, and enable young patients to receive much needed treatment and avoid unknowingly transmitting infection. Our product is designed to help existing program staff reach an increased number of clients; and to improve public health by encouraging reluctant young patients to accept important HIV testing and care they may otherwise decline.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03939455

Run by

New York University

People needed

295

Starts

2019-07-22

Expected to finish

2020-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-13

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 24. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Emergency Department patients aged 13 - 24 years will be eligible for the study if they are:
• awake
• able to provide consent as determined by ED staff
• understand written and spoken English
• not intoxicated
• not known to be HIV positive
• not a prisoner
• have not already agreed to test for HIV during their current ED visit (this will include patients who decline HIV testing offered by hospital staff and patients who are not yet offered HIV testing; potential differences in test rates among participants who decline vs. those who have not previously been offered an HIV test will be explored as a secondary outcome)

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion criteria include patients who are prisoners, patients who are asleep/unconscious, unable to provide consent as determined by ED staff, do not understand written and spoken English, are intoxicated, are known to be HIV positive, have already agreed to an HIV test during their current ED visit, have been categorized by ED staff as altered mental status or are presenting to the ED for a psychiatric problem. Additionally, the proposed research will exclude patients if medical records indicate hospital staff have categorized the patient as most urgently in need of medical care.

Where it is running

• Columbia University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States

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