Online Social Networking for HIV Prevention
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00725959 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: July 31, 2008
Results First Posted
: November 7, 2017
Last Update Posted
: November 7, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV | Behavioral: Online social networking HIV prevention | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 1578 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Online Social Networking for HIV Prevention |
Study Start Date : | September 2008 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2010 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2011 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Facebook Arm
Participants in this arm will have exposure to innovative, dynamic and regularly updated HIV Prevention messages on Facebook
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Behavioral: Online social networking HIV prevention
messages about HIV posted in online social networking sites
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Active Comparator: Control arm
Participants in this arm will have exposure to static information on HIV prevention currently available online
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Behavioral: Online social networking HIV prevention
messages about HIV posted in online social networking sites
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- Proportion of Condom Usage [ Time Frame: two months ]number of times condom used divided by number of times person had sex in past 60 days
- Condom and Abstinence Norms, Attitudes, Self-efficacy and Intentions [ Time Frame: two months ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 16 Years to 24 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Facebook user with an existing Facebook page
- at least 16
- no older than 24
- English speaker
Exclusion Criteria:
- older than 24 or younger than 16
- non English speaker
- does not have a Facebook page

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00725959
Principal Investigator: | Sheana Bull, Ph.D. | University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Sheana Bull, Professor, Colorado School of Public Health |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00725959 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
COMIRB 07-0459 R01NR010492 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) 1R01NR01492-01 |
First Posted: | July 31, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | November 7, 2017 |
Last Update Posted: | November 7, 2017 |
Last Verified: | October 2017 |
Keywords provided by Sheana Bull, Colorado School of Public Health:
HIV Prevention Social Networking Technology Based Intervention |