Developing a Chatbot to Promote HIV Testing

Официальное название

Developing an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot to Promote HIV Testing

Обзор

In this study, the feasibility of a Chatbot in promoting HIV testing in a pilot RCT with 80 men who have sex with men in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will be studied. Participants will be randomized to Chatbot or treatment as usual (TAU) groups. Participants in the intervention group will receive automated personalized messages containing HIV testing-related information, motivation and skills.

Подробное описание

After informed consent, participants will be randomly assigned to Chatbot or TAU groups using stratified randomization by age. Participants in TAU will receive attention-matched educational materials manually sent by the research assistant. Participants in the intervention group will receive an automated personalized question message (root-node message) from the Chabot. In each round of the interactive communication, the Chatbot will provide automated personalized messages containing HIV testing-related information, motivation and skills based on participants' answers and will continuously update over time. Participants will be observed over 180 days with responses and interactions stored on a HIPAA-compliant and protected cloud. An independent assessment of recent testing and reasons why will be sent by link to both TAU and intervention groups using a link to a Qualtrics survey housed on REDCap at baseline and after 90 and 180 days. After 180 days, the RA will send an additional REDCap survey to intervention participants to assess the feasibility of the Chabot to measure 4 key elements: acceptability, practicality, demand, and adaptation.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Chatbot messages
  Automated personalized messages containing HIV testing-related information, motivation and skills
• Поведенческое Attention-matched educational materials
  Attention-matched educational materials manually sent by our research assistant. These educational materials will be retrieved from CDC and WHO websites and curated into short articles (\<200 words) and pictures. All educational materials will be screened by HIV experts from University of Malaya to ensure accuracy before being sent to participants.

Первичные конечные точки

• Change in HIV testing [Срок оценки: 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 120 days, 150 days, and 180 days]

Вторичные конечные точки (4)

• Recruitment rate [Срок оценки: 180 days]
• Completion rate [Срок оценки: 180 days]
• Interaction time [Срок оценки: 180 days]
• Interaction frequency [Срок оценки: 180 days]

Критерии участия

Критерии включения

• cis-gender male
• 18+ years;
• had condomless sex with men in the past 6 months
• has a smartphone
• speaks Bahasa Malay or English.

Критерии исключения

• Not able to read Malay or English

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Профилактика

Центры проведения

Малайзия · 1 центр

• University of Malaya — Kuala Lumpur

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT04910984 · 2000027864 · 1R21AI152927-01A1

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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