Sexual Needs of Adolescents Living With HIV Since Childhood

Sexual Health Needs of Adolescents Living With HIV Since Childhood : a Qualitative Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05206123

Acronym

SSVIH

Enrollment

Registered

2022-01-25

Start date

2022-03-17

Completion date

2022-09-07

Last updated

2023-07-10

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Conditions

Hiv, Perinatal HIV Infection

Keywords

HIV, sexual Health, adolescent, sexual needs

Brief summary

To improve the knowdelge about the sexual health needs of perinatally HIV-infected adolescents living in France.

Detailed description

20 individual semi-structured interviews will be conducted with 20 young adults living with HIV sinc childhood and living in France. The aim of this study is to identify their sexual needs through exploring their personal experience of sexuality during their adolescence. The investigator intend to explore communication about the disease and sexuality within their families ; communication about sexual health with health care professionnals ; whether sexuality has arrose difficulties related to their chronic condition such as rejection or sadness ; whether there are differences in sexual needs regarding gender. A thematic analysis will be conducted by three researchers.

Interventions

OTHERInterview

Patients will be interviewed with a semi-structured qualitative interview in order to know how they lived their first sexual experiences and their sex lives during their adolescence

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 25 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Age between 18 and 25 yo * HIV-1 or HIV-2 diagnosis before the age of 13 * non opposition to participate to the study * be affiliated to a social security scheme (except Aide Médicale de l'Etat (AME))

Exclusion criteria

* having contracted HIV infection through sexual contact * persons under guardianship or custodianship, or deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision * associated illnesses or disabilities that makes participation impossible

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Qualitative analysis	through study completion, an average of 1 year	emerging themes describing the experience of their sexual health needs from the content analysis of the transcribed interviews

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026