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The Cedar Project WelTel mHealth intervention for HIV prevention in young Indigenous people who use illicit drugs: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
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The Cedar Project: Impact of mHealth for HIV Prevention Among Young Indigenous People Who Use Illicit Drugs
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Expanding our understanding of digital mental health interventions for Indigenous youth: An updated systematic review.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2025Pooled it
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- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- Operationalizing mHealth to improve patient care: a qualitative implementation science evaluation of the WelTel texting intervention in Canada and Kenya.Globalization and health · 2017Trial
- Contextual and culturally adapted interventions to improve HIV outcomes: a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Text-based messaging to support rheumatoid arthritis care: an analysis of frequency and content of text-messages.BMC rheumatology · 2025Article
- "How are you?" Perspectives From Patients and Health Care Providers of Text Messaging to Support Rheumatoid Arthritis Care: A Thematic Analysis.ACR open rheumatology · 2024Article
- Zelen design clinical trials: why, when, and how.Trials · 2021Review
- Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of 13 mHealth Projects in North America and Africa: Protocol for a 5-Year Implementation Science Study.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Ethics and practice of Trials within Cohorts: An emerging pragmatic trial design.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2018Article
- A Community-Based Addiction Rehabilitation Electronic System to Improve Treatment Outcomes in Drug Abusers: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Using technology to assess and intervene with illicit drug-using persons at risk for HIV.Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2017Review
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundDespite successes in preventing and treating HIV, Indigenous people in Canada continue to face disproportionately high rates of HIV infection. Programs that support healing from lifetime trauma, support connection to culture, and reduce drug-related harms are critical to preventing HIV among young Indigenous people who use drugs. The Cedar Project WelTel mHealth intervention proposed here is a structured mobile-phone initiative to connect young Indigenous people who use drugs with Cedar Case Managers in a community-based setting. The intervention consists of a package of supports, including a mobile phone and cellular plan, weekly two-way text messaging, and support from Cedar Case Managers.
methodsThe Cedar Project WelTel mHealth study is a multi-site Zelen pre-randomized trial to measure the effect of a two-way supportive text-message intervention to reduce HIV vulnerability among young Indigenous people who use illicit drugs in two Canadian cities. The trial is nested within the Cedar Project, an ongoing cohort study addressing HIV and hepatitis C vulnerability among young Indigenous people who use drugs in Vancouver and Prince George, British Columbia. The Cedar Project Partnership, an independent body of Indigenous Elders, leaders, and health/social service experts, governs all aspects of the study. Two hundred participants will be followed over a 16-month period, with HIV propensity score at 6 months as the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes include HIV propensity at 1 year, HIV risk, resilience, psychological distress, access to drug-related services, and connection to culture measured at 6 months and 1 year. Primary analysis is by intention to treat. DISCUSSION: Culturally safe interventions that address barriers to HIV prevention while supporting the strength of young Indigenous people who use drugs are urgently needed. Despite presenting a tremendous opportunity to connect young, highly transient Indigenous people who use drugs to prevention services, supportive two-way mHealth programs have yet to be tested for HIV prevention in a community-based setting with this population.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT02437123 https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02437123 (registered 4 May 2015). Protocol version: 24 July 2015.
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