Harnessing Social Network Support to Improve Retention in Care and Viral Suppression Among People Living With HIV in Chicago and Alabama: A Hybrid Type I Effectiveness-implementation Trial
University of Chicago
Summary
The goal of this Hybrid Type I effectiveness-implementation trial is to test an evidence-based, flexible, and tailored intervention that leverages existing social network members to promote retention in care and viral suppression among people living with HIV aged 18-49.
Description
This study is a Hybrid Type I effectiveness-implementation trial of an evidence-based, flexible, and tailored intervention that leverages existing social network members to promote retention in care and viral suppression. The study will be conducted in Chicago, Illinois and Alabama, two high burden priority areas in the National Ending the HIV Epidemic Plan. Both retention in care and viral suppression are critical targets in ongoing efforts to eliminate HIV, as persons adherent to antiretrovirals are unlikely to transmit HIV, and retention in care allows for ongoing monitoring of viral load a…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–49 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria for Index Participants: * Aged 18-49 years old, inclusive * Speak English * Own a cell phone not shared with anyone else * Have missed at least one HIV care scheduled visit or have not been virally suppressed in the past 24 months. * Resides in Chicagoland, Illinois or Alabama Exclusion Criteria for Index Men: * If a participant fails to meet all inclusion criteria Inclusion Criteria for Support Confidants: * Index agrees to engage the Support Confidant * Age 18 years or older * Speaks English * Owns a cell phone not shared with others * Is not a romantic/sexual partner…
Interventions
- BehavioralSocial Network Support Intervention
The Social Network Support Intervention is an evidence-based, flexible, and tailored intervention that leverages existing social network members to promote retention in care and viral suppression among people living with HIV. The intervention consists of (1) selection and invitation of a Support Confidant, (2) a face-to-face intervention between the Intervention Case Manager and the Index and Support Confidant, and (3) quarterly interactive mini-booster sessions delivered to the Index and Support Confidant via text or telephone, based on participant preference.
Locations (7)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham 1917 ClinicBirmingham, Alabama
- Birmingham AIDS OutreachBirmingham, Alabama
- Thrive AlabamaHuntsville, Alabama
- Howard Brown HealthChicago, Illinois
- Chicago Center for HIV EliminationChicago, Illinois
- Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois