Education and Employment Support for HIV Prevention in Young Adults (ENSPIRE)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Summary
The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the efficacy of implementing a combination intervention to improve economic stability and HIV preventive behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 500 young adults. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first group ("control") will receive text messages with information on job openings. The second group ("intervention") will receive text messages with information on job openings plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions on employment, income generation, and HIV prevention, economic resources, and mentoring.
Description
The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the efficacy of implementing a combination intervention to improve economic stability and HIV preventive behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 500 young adults, aged 18 to 24, who are economically-vulnerable, sexually active, living in Baltimore, and have access to a mobile phone with text messaging. Participants will be recruited using respondent-driven sampling and be randomly assigned to one of two groups by cluster, equal to a seed and recruits. The first group ("control") will receive text messages with information on job op…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–24 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion criteria are: * Aged 18-24 * Economically-vulnerable in past 12 months * Sexually active in past 12 months * Living in Baltimore * Has access to mobile phone with text messaging Exclusion criteria are: * Aged 17 or younger * Older than 24 years * Unwilling to provide consent for study participation
Interventions
- BehavioralJob announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.
Participants will receive job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.
- BehavioralJob announcements
Participants will receive job announcements only.
Location
- Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, Maryland