Economic Navigation and Strengthening to Research Unrestricted Services for Transgender Women (ENTRUST)
University of Central Florida
110 participants
Jul 11, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The overall hypothesis is that stabilizing transgender women financially while providing them tailored counselling will increase their odds of them linking to substance use services, PrEP services if they do not have HIV, and transgender women who are living with HIV will be more adherent to their ART treatment.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- Aged ≥18 years
- Male at birth
- Identify as a woman/transgender woman
- Should not be consistently using PrEP (less than four doses per week)
- Should not have any known allergy or adverse reaction to PrEP or the active drug tenofovir in ART. One of the goals of the study is to move more people into a PrEP program
- Be able to speak and understand spoken English and/or Spanish (including persons who cannot read or write)
- Have a smart phone that can take pictures
Exclusion Criteria5
- Unwilling to adhere to study procedures
- Participation in an HIV vaccine trial
- Have a life-threatening SUD\*
- Any condition, that in the opinion of the study staff, would make participation in the study unsafe, or interfere with achieving the study objective such as medical conditions which prevents the use of PrEP
- Unable to provide consent
Interventions
At the baseline visits, all study participants will be complete an interviewer-assisted questionnaire using REDCap, and will also receive the SBIRT-T MI-based intervention. Participants randomized to the ENTRUST intervention group will also be assigned to a cohort for strength sessions, and they will be provided with a schedule of strength session visits
Participants randomized to the ENTRUST intervention group will also be assigned to a cohort for economic strength sessions, group-based economic training through photovoice activities and adapted screening brief intervention and treatment (SBIRT-T) adapted for transgender women delivered by a facilitator or digitally.
participants assigned to the control arm will have the option of participating in the four additional strength sessions.
Locations(1)
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NCT06202898