Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01980771 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: November 11, 2013
Last Update Posted
: March 30, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV | Behavioral: BTWB intervention Behavioral: Cancer prevention and screening | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 880 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Barbershop Talk: HIV Prevention for African American Heterosexual Men |
Study Start Date : | November 2012 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | February 2017 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | February 1, 2017 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: BTWB intervention
Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or active control condition. Men recruited from experimental barbershops receive a single-session group intervention focused on HIV prevention.
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Behavioral: BTWB intervention
Men work in groups to complete a intervention that takes approximately two hours to complete.
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Active Comparator: Cancer prevention and screening
Barbershops are assigned to either experimental or control condition. Men recruited from control barbershops receive information on cancer prevention and control.
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Behavioral: Cancer prevention and screening
Men are provided health education about cancer screening and prevention
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- Sexual behavior [ Time Frame: Six month follow-up ]Self-reported sexual behavior will be assessed via self-report of number of sexual partners and of unprotected vaginal and/or anal sex in the past ninety days.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Unprotected sex in the past three months
- Identify as Black or African American
Exclusion Criteria:
- Having been in an HIV prevention research study in the last six months
- Reporting a history in the past five years of injection drug use
- Reporting a history in the past five years of having sex with other men
- Reporting an HIV-positive serostatus
- Inability to understand spoken English.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01980771
United States, New York | |
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc. | |
Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11203 | |
SUNY Downstate Medical Center | |
Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11203 |
Principal Investigator: | Tracey E Wilson, PhD | State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center |
Responsible Party: | Tracey Wilson, Professor, State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01980771 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
5P20MD006875, subproject 5174 5P20MD006875 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | November 11, 2013 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 30, 2017 |
Last Verified: | March 2017 |
Keywords provided by Tracey Wilson, State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center:
HIV prevention men African American |