Evaluating spillover of HIV knowledge from study participants to their network members in a stepped-wedge behavioural intervention in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aim to describe the social network members of participants of a behavioural intervention, and examine how the effects of the intervention may spillover among network members.

Design

Secondary analysis of a step-wedge randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Change agents (CAs) were recruited from waiting rooms of HIV treatment facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and their network members (NMs) were recruited directly by CAs.

Participants

We enrolled 662 CAs in an HIV behavioural intervention. They, along with 710 of their NMs, completed baseline and follow-up interviews from 2011 to 2013.

Primary and secondary outcomes

The primary outcome of this study was change in NMs' HIV knowledge, and the secondary outcome was whether the NM was lost to

SUBMITTER: Rewley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542922 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature