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Education and Employment Support for HIV Prevention in Young Adults (ENSPIRE)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · with National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) · NCT06096324

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 18–24 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Interventional · Not applicable
Target enrollment
500
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
September 19, 2023
Record last updated
March 4, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

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.

Being studied: Job announcements plus HIV prevention text messages, educational sessions, economic resources, and mentoring.; Job announcements

Conditions: Economic Hardship; Condomless Sex; Utilization, Health Care

Eligibility criteria

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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

Recruiting US locations

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, MD 21205

    Site contact: Nancy Glass, PhD MPH RN · 410-955-4766 · nglass1@jhu.edu

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson, PhD MHS · 919-445-5099 · ljennings.mayowilson@unc.edu
  • Adriana Parker, MPH · 919-843-9293 · adriana.parker@unc.edu
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