Trial reportJournal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
Safety and acceptability of couples HIV testing and counseling for US men who have sex with men: a randomized prevention study.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.
- Do Couple-Based Interventions Show Larger Effects in Promoting HIV Preventive Behaviors than Individualized Interventions in Couples? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of 11 Randomized Controlled Trials.AIDS and behavior · 2023Pooled it
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- Adapted Motivational Interviewing Reduces Substance Use and Sexual Risk Taking Among Partnered Sexual Minority Men Aged 18-35 Years: Results of the PARTNER Study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026Trial
- Optimizing Individual HIV Testing and Counseling for Emerging Adult Sexual Minority Men (Aged 18 to 24) in Relationships: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Adjunct Communication Components.AIDS and behavior · 2024Trial
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing with Sexual Minority Male Couples to Reduce Drug Use and Sexual Risk: The Couples Health Project.AIDS and behavior · 2022Trial
- A Pilot Randomized Trial of Intervention Components Addressing Drug Use in Couples HIV Testing and Counseling (CHTC) with Male Couples.AIDS and behavior · 2019Trial
- Couples Have a Way of Speaking: Examining the Characteristics and Stability of Communication Style in HIV Testing Sessions With Male Couples.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2025Article
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- A protocol for a randomized controlled trial of couples motivational interviewing to reduce drug use and HIV transmission risk among male couples in the US: the Couples Health Project.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Assessing a Couples-Based, Digital HIV Serostatus-Neutral Intervention (Para Ti, Para Mí, Para Nosotros) for Adult Cisgender Sexual Minority Male Couples in Lima, Peru: Protocol for a 6-Month Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Drug use and condomless sex among sexual minority men in relationships: Whether relationship quality is a risk or protective factor depends upon what they believe their partners do.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Comparing Repeated (Annual) Couples HIV Testing and Counseling to Individual HIV Testing and Counseling Among Male Couples at High Risk of HIV Infection: Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Interventions, Barriers, and Facilitators to Address the Sexual Problems of Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV: A Rapid Scoping Review.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Client Responses to Video-Based Communication Skills Training Involving PrEP for HIV: Tailoring an Individual Sexual Health Intervention for Sexual Minority Men in Relationships.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Challenges with couples HIV counselling and testing among black MSM students: perspectives of university students in Durban, South Africa.SAHARA J : journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance · 2022Article
- HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT-HIV) effectiveness for sexual risk-reduction among key populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- Relationship Power and Intimate Partner Violence in Sexual Minority Male Couples.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2022Article
- Partners' Consensus About Joint Effort and COVID-19 Prevention Among Sexual Minority Men.Archives of sexual behavior · 2022Article
- Acceptability and Feasibility of a Telehealth Intervention for STI Testing Among Male Couples.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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16 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We tested a couples HIV testing and counseling (CHTC) intervention with male couples in Atlanta by randomizing eligible couples to receive either CHTC or separate individual voluntary HIV counseling and testing (iVCT). To evaluate the acceptability and safety of CHTC, main outcomes were satisfaction with the intervention and the proportions of couples reporting intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship dissolution after the service. The results indicated that the service was very acceptable to men (median 7-item index of satisfaction was 34 for CHTC and 35 for iVCT, P = .4). There was no difference in either incident IPV (22% versus 17% for CHTC and iVCT, respectively, P = .6) or relationship dissolution (42% versus 51% for CHTC and iVCT, respectively, P = .5). Based on the preliminary data, CHTC is safe for male couples, and it is equally acceptable to iVCT for men who have main partners.
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