Screen2Prevent (S2P): Using Digital Health to Improve HIV Screening and Prevention for Adolescents in the Emergency Department
Westat
Summary
Screen2Prevent is a study intended to improve HIV prevention and detection through implementation and evaluation of three different broad-scale HIV screening approaches a) targeted, b) universally offered opt-in, and c) universally offered opt-out in Emergency Departments (EDs) by leveraging digital health to identify and link adolescents seeking care in the ED to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)/Antiretroviral treatment (ART).
Description
At each SC, each of the three screening strategies (targeted, universally offered opt-in, and universally offered opt-out) will be employed, one at a time, for a period of 8 months and a total study period of 24 months. All patients 14-24 years of age that are seeking care in participating EDs during the study period will be given the opportunity to complete the computerized sexual health survey (cSHS) on a tablet. The cSHS asks patients to decide whether they want to be tested for HIV and contains questions based on the 2021 update to the CDC PrEP eligibility guidelines that stratify risk fo…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 14–24 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers