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NCT Number: NCT02185742

Planning for SUCCESS

Planning for SUCCESS (Sustained, Unbroken Connections to Care, Entry Services, and Suppression) is a project to improve the connection to community care for HIV infected persons leaving Fulton County Jail or Atlanta City Detention Center in Atlanta.

Hypothesis: Participants who receive the intervention will be more likely to link to medical care after jail release than similar participants who do not receive the intervention.

Rationale and objective: This project aims to make sure HIV positive persons leaving jail maintain medical care. Case managers will use strength based case management and phone texting technology to improve release's connections to care in the community.

This study will have extensive tracking of outcomes. The key outcome will be whether HIV infected participants receiving an intervention experience suppression of their viral load after release from jail . The investigators wish to demonstrate the ability to recruit participants into the SUCCESS intervention and repeatedly check community medical records to see how well their infection is being controlled after they linked to care. Investigators also want to conduct a survey at baseline, 3 months and 12 months.

Investigators will compare the viral load of participants receiving the intervention to participants passing through the jail who do not receive the outcome.

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Key information

Conditions

HIV

Age range

18 year–99 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Fulton County Jail

Atlanta, Georgia, 30318, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • HIV infected (HIV+); age of or over 18 years;
  • Mentally able to give consent; understand spoken English;
  • Detained or sentenced in either the Fulton County Jail or the Atlanta City Detention Center; and
  • Likely to leave within 6 weeks

Exclusion criteria

  • Unable to give consent because of mental illness or inebriation;
  • A recent participant in a randomized trial conducted by the investigators of an intervention to increase retention in HIV care (e.g., ARTAS)

Treatment and study plan

Strength Based Case Management

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

  1. HIV viral load

    Time frame: 12 months after release from jail

    HIV viral load can be drawn; obtaining it shows that the person is in care. Ideally, it should be suppressed 12 months out of jail.

    One measurement of viral load within three months after release will demonstrate linkage; two clinical visits occurring within 12 months post release, with at least 2 clinical visits spaced a minimum of 3 months apart, will indicate retention.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Show feasibility of conducting protocol

    Time frame: Four months

    Demonstrate that 14 persons can be recruited per month and that delivery of the intervention is feasible.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Emory University

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Registry information

Official study title

Planning for Sustained, Unbroken Connections to Care, Entry Services, and Suppression (SUCCESS)-- A Project to Improve the Connection to Community Care for HIV Infected Persons Leaving Jail in Atlanta

Acronym: SUCCESS

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Jul 10, 2014
Registry last updated
Jan 23, 2017

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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