Pilot of Mpowerment for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (YMSM) in Beirut

Sponsor

RAND (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT02918799

Collaborator

Lebanese AIDS Society (Other), Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality (Other), University of California, San Francisco (Other), AIDS Project Los Angeles (Other)

226

Enrollment

Arm

Actual Duration (Months)

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This project will adapt and pilot a multi-level, community-based intervention to promote HIV prevention and sexual health among young men who have sex with men in Beirut.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
HIV	Behavioral: Mpowerment	N/A

Detailed Description

Mpowerment (MP) is an evidence-based community-level, structural, social and behavioral intervention for HIV prevention developed for YMSM that targets individual and community empowerment and mobilization, self-affirmation, sexual self-knowledge, and creation of a supportive social environment. MP has been widely used in the U.S., but not in a mostly Muslim setting. This project will adapt and pilot MP for the sociocultural issues facing YMSM (age 18-29) in Beirut. There will be a 2-year pilot implementation of MP, with longitudinal cohorts of YMSM in Beirut and Jounieh, the latter being the control community. Primary outcomes will be unprotected anal sex and HIV testing, with secondary outcomes being engagement in peer outreach, and perceived peer norms related to condom use and HIV testing.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Actual Enrollment :

226 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Intervention Model Description:

Intervention will be evaluated with community cohort and use of pre- post-intervention analysis planIntervention will be evaluated with community cohort and use of pre- post-intervention analysis plan

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Prevention

Official Title:

Pilot of Culturally Tailored Mpowerment for HIV Prevention Among YMSM in Beirut

Actual Study Start Date :

Aug 1, 2016

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Jan 1, 2020

Actual Study Completion Date :

Mar 1, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Other: Community cohort Beirut community will receive the multi-component intervention Mpowerment; the community cohort of YMSM will be used to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the community, as the cohort participants may or may not have participated in the intervention.	Behavioral: Mpowerment MP is a multi-level intervention that reaches out to all YMSM in a community by mobilizing men to encourage their friends to reduce risk behavior and join the program (informal outreach), along with holding social activities that promote safe sex (formal outreach). MP provides YMSM with skills, support and confidence to find solutions within themselves for sexual health, and seeks to affirm the validity and rights of same-sex behavior and identities.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Other: Community cohort

Beirut community will receive the multi-component intervention Mpowerment; the community cohort of YMSM will be used to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the community, as the cohort participants may or may not have participated in the intervention.

Behavioral: Mpowerment

MP is a multi-level intervention that reaches out to all YMSM in a community by mobilizing men to encourage their friends to reduce risk behavior and join the program (informal outreach), along with holding social activities that promote safe sex (formal outreach). MP provides YMSM with skills, support and confidence to find solutions within themselves for sexual health, and seeks to affirm the validity and rights of same-sex behavior and identities.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

condomless anal sex [past 3 months]
condomless anal sex with HIV+ or unknown status partners in past 3 months will be assessed via questionnaire
HIV testing [past 6 months]
Variable will be assessed via questionnaire

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years to 29 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

Male

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

men aged 18-29, who have had anal sex with men in the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

not residing in Lebanon

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

RAND
Lebanese AIDS Society
Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality
University of California, San Francisco
AIDS Project Los Angeles

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Glenn Wagner, PhD, RAND

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

RAND

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT02918799

Other Study ID Numbers:

2014-0992

First Posted:

Sep 29, 2016

Last Update Posted:

Oct 6, 2020

Last Verified:

Oct 1, 2020

Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:

Plan to Share IPD:

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Oct 6, 2020