Clinical trial NCT02185742: Planning for SUCCESS
Official 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
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: HIV
Keywords: HIV
jail
detainee
Linkage and Retention
Treatment as Prevention
Strength Based Case Management
releases
Lead sponsor: Emory University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2014-07-10
Enrollment: 113
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.


Eligibility criteria: 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)

Primary outcomes:
measure: HIV viral load
timeFrame: 12 months after release from jail
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Show feasibility of conducting protocol
timeFrame: Four months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Fulton County Jail
state: Georgia
Study officials:
affiliation: Emory University
name: Anne C Spaulding, MD MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Spaulding AC, Drobeniuc A, Frew PM, Lemon TL, Anderson EJ, Cerwonka C, Bowden C, Freshley J, Del Rio C. Jail, an unappreciated medical home: Assessing the feasibility of a strengths-based case management intervention to improve the care retention of HIV-infected persons once released from jail. PLoS One. 2018 Mar 30;13(3):e0191643. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191643. eCollection 2018.