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Screen Smart: Using Digital Health to Improve HIV Screening and Prevention

Screen Smart: Using Digital Health to Improve HIV Screening and Prevention for Adolescents in the Emergency Department

Who can join

Ages 15 to 21 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* All patients 15-21 years of age visiting a pediatric emergency department.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to understand English
* Critically ill
* Cognitively impaired
* Altered mental status

About the study

The goal of this interrupted time series quasi-experimental design study is to implement universal opt- out HIV testing and linkage to HIV preventive care in 15-21 year old adolescents visiting the pediatric emergency department (ED). The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are:

1. What is the uptake, reach and effectiveness of universally offered, opt-out HIV screening across pediatric EDs after implementing an adapted version of a tablet-based screening process? 2. What is the successful linkage to comprehensive HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care using a novel, digital health platform? Participants will

1. Complete the previously developed and validated computerized sexual health screen (cSHS) containing questions regarding their personal sexual health history 2. Have the opportunity to opt-out of clinician-ordered HIV testing 3. Patients meeting CDC criteria for HIV PrEP will be given the opportunity to enroll in the digital health PrEP linkage platform and followed for 3 months after enrollment.

What is being tested

• Universal Opt-out HIV Screening (other)

Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Participants: 63,000 · Started: Dec 16, 2024

Contact the study team

• Tricia Cobb, MS · Phone: 513-636-7966

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06003192

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• HIV

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 29, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.