Behavior, Sex
Conditions
Brief summary
A non-blinded parallel group randomized controlled trial is conducted. Adult male full-time employees of factories in Shenzhen who have access to smartphone and WeChat are recruited by staff of the Longhua Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After completing an online baseline questionnaire, participants will be randomized evenly to either the intervention group or the control group. Participants in the control group will have access to a WeChat Mini Program providing HIV and sexually transmitted prevention information during the project period. In addition to those received by the control group, the Mini Program will proactively ask participants in the intervention group some simple questions to assess presence of sexual risk behaviors at Month 0 and Month 1, and invite them to watch online health promotion video(s) tailored to their current sexual risk behaviors. All participants will complete two online follow-up surveys six and twelve months after completion of the interventions.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALWeChat Mini Program plus tailored online health promotion videos
Participants have access to a WeChat Mini Program. Participants will also watch online health promotion videos tailored to their current sexual behaviors.
BEHAVIORALWeChat Mini Program Only
Participants only have access to a WeChat Mini Program.
Sponsors
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
MALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Male at birth * Aged 18 years or above * Full-time employee of a factory in Shenzhen * Having a smartphone with internet access * Having installed or willing to install WeChat on the smartphone * Willing to complete follow-up surveys at Month 6 and 12
Exclusion criteria
* Oral or anal sex with a man * Blindness ot deafness * Not able to communicate effectively with project staff * Self-reported as HIV positive
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sexual intercourse with non-regular female sex partner | 6 months | Proportion of the participants who have sexual intercourse with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months |
| Sexual intercourse with female sex workers | 6 months | Proportion of participants who have sexual intercourse with a female sex worker in the past six months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Condomless sex with non-regular female sex partners | 6 months | Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a non-regular female sex partner in the past six months |
| Condomless sex with female sex workers | 6 months | Proportion of the participants who have condomless sex with a female sex worker in the past six months |
Countries
Hong Kong
Contacts
Primary ContactZixin Wang, PhD
Outcome results
None listed