ANCHORS: UH3
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StatusAccepting Candidates
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Age18 Years - 30 Years
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SexesMale
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Healthy VolunteersAccepts Healthy Volunteers
Objective
80 young adult men will complete an initial survey and receive 1 of 2 types of alcohol and sexual health education and information to encourage prevention of alcohol-related problems, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Participants will then take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention and complete a daily 5-minute, telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) assessment of alcohol/substance use, sexual behavior and PrEP taking for 30 days. Medication will all be active PrEP. There is no placebo control in this study. Follow-up will occur after 30-days and 6-months later.
Details
Full study title | Advancing New Computer-based Health Outreach Regarding Sexual behavior (ANCHORS) Study: UH3 Project |
Protocol number | OCR31862 |
ClinicalTrials.gov ID | NCT04331704 |
Phase | Phase 4 |
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
Ability to read and write English
Consumption of 5 or more drinks per drinks in a day at least once in the past 30-days
Sexual intercourse with another man without condom use at least once in the past 30 days
HIV seronegative at medical screening
Report currently taking PrEP willingness to take PrEP
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of clinically significant withdrawal from alcohol, defined as any one of the
Following: a) a lifetime history of seizures, delirium, or hallucinations during
alcohol withdrawal; b) a Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment scale score > 8;
c) a report of drinking to avoid withdrawal symptoms in the past 12 months; or d) a
lifetime history of medical treatment for withdrawal.
Self report injection drug use
DSM-5 criteria for moderate or severe current substance use disorder besides alcohol and nicotine.
Serious psychiatric symptoms
Use of medications that interfere with PrEP including diuretics, nephrotoxic drugs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antiretroviral drugs or other drugs that may interfere with tenofovir excretion
Active hepatitis B infection
The following medical exclusions: serious or life-threatening conditions; inadequate biochemical, hepatic, hematologic, or pancreatic function according to laboratory testing
Participant reports currently taking injectable PrEP
Lead researcher
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Robert L Cook, MD, MPHInternist
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