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Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Conditions: Economic Hardship, Condomless Sex, Utilization, Health Care
Interventions: Job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring., Job announcements
Countries: United States
The study team will conduct a two-group study to examine the efficacy of implementing a combination intervention to improve economic stability and HIV preventive behaviors. The team will enroll approximately 500 young adults. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. The first group ("control") will receive text messages with information on job openings. The second group ("intervention") will receive text messages with information on job openings plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions on employment, income generation, and HIV prevention, economic resources, and mentoring.
Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years to 24 Years
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Inclusion criteria are: * Aged 18-24 * Economically-vulnerable in past 12 months * Sexually active in past 12 months * Living in Baltimore * Has access to mobile phone with text messaging Exclusion criteria are: * Aged 17 or younger * Older than 24 years * Unwilling to provide consent for study participation
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States