RecruitingNot Applicable

Education and Employment Support for HIV Prevention in Young Adults (ENSPIRE)

United States500 participantsStarted 2023-09-19

Plain-language 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.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 24 Years

SexALL

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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

What they're measuring

Mean economic stability score of participants in each group in the past six months

Timeframe: Month 3

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06096324

SponsorUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2028-03-31

Contact for this trial

Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD MHS

919-445-5099 ljennings.mayowilson@unc.edu

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