title: Smartphone Delivery of Mobile HIV Risk Reduction Education.
abstract: We sought to develop and deploy a video-based smartphone-delivered mobile HIV Risk Reduction (mHIVRR) intervention to individuals in an addiction treatment clinic. We developed 3 video modules that consisted of a 10-minute HIVRR video, 11 acceptability questions, and 3 knowledge questions and deployed them as a secondary study within a larger study of ecological momentary and geographical momentary assessments. All 24 individuals who remained in the main study long enough completed the mHIVRR secondary study. All 3 videos met our a priori criteria for acceptability "as is" in the population: they achieved median scores of ≤2.5 on a 5-point Likert scale; ≤20% of the individuals gave them the most negative rating on the scale; a majority of the individuals stated that they would not prefer other formats over video-based smartphone-delivered one (all P < 0.05). Additionally, all of our video modules met our a priori criteria for feasibility: ≤20% of data were missing due to participant noncompliance and ≤20% were missing due to technical failure. We concluded that video-based mHIVRR education delivered via smartphone is acceptable, feasible and may increase HIV/STD risk reduction knowledge. Future studies, with pre-intervention assessments of knowledge and random assignment, are needed to confirm these findings.
authors.affiliation: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Boulevard, BRC Building, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
authors.forename: Karran A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Epstein
authors.forename: Mustapha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mezghanni
authors.forename: Massoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vahabzadeh
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Reamer
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Agage
authors.forename: Kenzie L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Preston