Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2014
Cluster-randomized controlled trial of an HIV/sexually transmitted infection risk-reduction intervention for South African men.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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South African Men Health Promotion Project
Psychoeducational Intervention Through Meta - Universes on Self - Efficacy in the Use of Condoms and Sexual Behavior in University Students of the Autonomous University of Chile, 2018.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What is the added value of incorporating pleasure in sexual health interventions? A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Reported oral and anal sex among adolescents and adults reporting heterosexual sex in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Reproductive health · 2019Pooled it
- Behavioral and cognitive interventions to improve treatment adherence and access to HIV care among older adults in sub-Saharan Africa: an updated systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- How common and frequent is heterosexual anal intercourse among South Africans? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Pooled it
- "Safe Places Like These are Rare": Feasibility of the Speaking Out and Allying Relationships (SOAR) Intervention for HIV-Positive Sexual Minority Men in Eastern Cape, South Africa.AIDS and behavior · 2026Trial
- On the Efficacy and Mediation of a One-on-One HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention for African American Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Randomized Controlled Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2015Trial
- Mediation of effects of a theory-based behavioral intervention on self-reported physical activity in South African men.Preventive medicine · 2015Trial
- Theory-based behavioral intervention increases self-reported physical activity in South African men: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Preventive medicine · 2014Trial
- 'Let Us Protect Our Future' a culturally congruent evidenced-based HIV/STD risk-reduction intervention for young South African adolescents.Health education research · 2014Trial
- Peer network approaches for improving HIV testing, prevention and care utilisation among men in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2026Article
- HIV Focused Sexual Risk-Reduction Interventions Targeting Adolescent Boys and Young Men in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Gender and Context Matter: Behavioral and Structural Interventions for People Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs in Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- A Skills-Based HIV Serostatus Disclosure Intervention for Sexual Minority Men in South Africa: Protocol for Intervention Adaptation and a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- "We've Got Our Own Beliefs, Attitudes, Myths": A Mixed Methods Assessment of Rural South African Health Care Workers' Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards PrEP Implementation.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Development of risk reduction behavioral counseling for Ebola virus disease survivors enrolled in the Sierra Leone Ebola Virus Persistence Study, 2015-2016.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Sociodemographic Factors Prospectively Associated with Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among South African Heterosexual Men.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2017Article
- Community-based strategies to strengthen men's engagement in the HIV care cascade in sub-Saharan Africa.PLoS medicine · 2017Article
- Clinical study on cluster care to prevent multi-drug resistant infection in ICU patients with severe encephalopathy.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2016Article
- Accounting for interactions and complex inter-subject dependency in estimating treatment effect in cluster-randomized trials with missing outcomes.Biometrics · 2016Article
- Protective factors and HIV risk behavior among South African men.AIDS and behavior · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe tested the efficacy of a sexual risk-reduction intervention for men in South Africa, where heterosexual exposure is the main mode of HIV transmission.
methodsMatched-pairs of neighborhoods in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, were randomly selected and within pairs randomized to 1 of 2 interventions based on social cognitive theory and qualitative research: HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk-reduction, targeting condom use, or attention-matched control, targeting health issues unrelated to sexual risks. Sexually active men aged 18 to 45 years were eligible. The primary outcome was consistent condom use in the past 3 months.
resultsOf 1181 participants, 1106 (93.6%) completed the 12-month follow-up. HIV and STI risk-reduction participants had higher odds of reporting consistent condom use (odds ratio [OR] = 1.32; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.03, 1.71) and condom use at last vaginal intercourse (OR = 1.40; 95% CI = 1.08, 1.82) than did attention-control participants, adjusting for baseline prevalence. No differences were observed on unprotected intercourse or multiple partnerships. Findings did not differ for sex with steady as opposed to casual partners.
conclusionsBehavioral interventions specifically targeting men can contribute to efforts to reduce sexual risk behaviors in South Africa.
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