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Trial reportAIDS and behavior2018

Comparison of Home-Based Oral Fluid Rapid HIV Self-Testing Versus Mail-in Blood Sample Collection or Medical/Community HIV Testing By Young Adult Black, Hispanic, and White MSM: Results from a Randomized Trial.

Roland C Merchant, Melissa A Clark, Tao Liu, Justin Romanoff, Joshua G Rosenberger, Jose Bauermeister, Kenneth H Mayer

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Trial report in AIDS and behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02369627 (Facilitating HIV Testing Among Young Adult MSM Through Social Networking), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT02369627 phase3completednot on this map

Facilitating HIV Testing Among Young Adult MSM Through Social Networking

TypeinterventionalSponsorRhode Island HospitalRan2015 to 2017Enrolled425ConditionsHIVArmsRapid HIV Self-Test (OraQuick® In-home HIV Test), Conventional Home-Based HIV Test (Home Access Express), Community/Medical-Based HIV Test
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analyses to Assess the Effectiveness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Self-testing Distribution Strategies.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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  15. Preferences for oral-World journal of methodology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Roland C MerchantDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, USA. rmerchant@lifespan.org.ORCID 0000-0001-7571-1294
Melissa A ClarkDepartment of Quantitative Health Sciences and Center for Health Policy and Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA.
Tao LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, USA.
Justin RomanoffDepartment of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Sciences, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, USA.
Joshua G RosenbergerDepartment of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.
Jose BauermeisterDepartment of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Kenneth H MayerFenway Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Funding

Facilitating HIV Testing Among Young Adult MSM Through Social NetworkingR21NR013869 · NINR · RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL · PI MERCHANT, ROLAND C · 2014 to 2015
$458k
NINR NIH HHS R21 NR013869NINR NIH HHS R21 NR023869
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to determine in a randomized trial if young adult black, Hispanic, and white men-who-have-sex-with-men (YMSM) are more likely to complete home-based oral fluid rapid HIV self-testing than either mail-in blood sample collection or medical facility/community organization-based HIV testing. Stratified by race/ethnicity, participants were randomly assigned to use a free oral fluid rapid HIV self-test (n = 142), a free mail-in blood sample collection HIV test (n = 142), or be tested at a medical facility/community organization of their choice (n = 141). Of the 425 participants, completion of assigned test (66% oral fluid vs. 40% mail-in blood sample vs. 56% medical facility/community), willingness to refer (36% oral fluid vs. 20% mail-in blood sample vs. 26% medical facility/community), and legitimate referrals (58% oral fluid vs. 43% mail-in blood sample vs. 43% medical facility/community) were greater in the oral fluid rapid HIV self-test than the mail-in blood sample collection HIV test arm, but not the medical facility/community testing arm. There were no differences in assigned test completion by race/ethnicity. Although free home-based oral fluid rapid HIV self-testing showed moderate promise in facilitating HIV testing among black, Hispanic, and white YMSM, it did not lead to greater testing than directing these YMSM to medical facility/community HIV testing venues. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02369627.

Indexed as

HIVAdolescentAIDS SerodiagnosisBlack or African AmericanBlack PeopleDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHispanic or LatinoHIV InfectionsHomosexuality, MaleHumansMaleMass ScreeningMouthOutcome and Process Assessment, Health CarePostal ServiceSerologic TestsClinical trialHIV testingMen-who-have-sex-with-menYoung adult

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PMID28540562
PMCPMC5701881

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