{"doc_desc":{"title":"Adapting the Stepping Stones intervention to strengthen HIV-related outcomes, and enable scale- up,for young men in South Africa.Release Version 02","idno":"DDI.AHRI.Stepping.Stones.v2","producers":[{"name":"Africa Health Research Institute","abbreviation":"AHRI","affiliation":"","role":""}]},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"AHRI.Stepping.Stones.v2","title":"Adapting the Stepping Stones intervention to strengthen HIV-related outcomes, and enable scale- up,for young men in South Africa.Release Version 02"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Shahmanesh, Maryam","affiliation":"UCL\/AHRI\/UKZN"},{"name":"Gibbs, Andrew","affiliation":"SAMRC\/UKZN"},{"name":"","affiliation":""}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Jaco Dreyer","affiliation":"Africa Health Research Institute","email":"","role":"Data management, cleaning"},{"name":"","affiliation":"","email":"","role":""},{"name":"","affiliation":"","email":"","role":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Africa Health Research Institute","affiliation":"","role":""}],"funding_agencies":[{"name":"UK Research Institute\/ UK Medical Research Council","abbreviation":"UKRI\/UKMRC","role":"Main funder"},{"name":"South African Medical Research Council","abbreviation":"SAMRC","role":"Funding staff time"}],"grant_no":"MR\/T025832\/1 N\/A"},"version_statement":{"version":"V2.0.0"},"study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"HIV, masculinity, men, youth, adolescent, intervention, violence","vocab":"Africa Health Research Institute","uri":"www.ahri.org"}],"topics":[{"topic":"HIV-1, Rural Population; HIV Infections; Africa, Psychosocial intervention","vocab":"Africa Health Research Institute","uri":"www.ahri.org"}],"abstract":"This study sought to develop an pilot a scalable group-based participatory intervention to improve men's health, with a focus on HIV-related mortality, through the pathways of transforming men's masculinities and strengthening livelihoods. The wider project included intervention development, and revision of the Stepping Stones manual, as well as shortening it. The specific objectives were: \n1. To assess feasibility and acceptability of the intervention for young men through a rigorous process evaluation that uses quantitative and qualitative methods\n2. To assess the feasibility of collecting the primary outcome - HIV testing and linkage HIV-prevention counselling around evidence-based HIV-prevention technologies (PrEP, VMMC) if HIV-negative, and uptake of HIV-treatment if HIV-positive- through the Africa Health Research Institutes electronic data collection systems in all primary health and mobile clinical services. \nMain variables include recruitment into study, attendance at any session, attendance at >70% of sessions, and linkage to care.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2021-03-26","end":"2021-05-27","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"ZA"}],"geog_coverage":"South Africa","analysis_unit":"Individual participant level data","universe":"Any men aged 18-35 residing in selected week blocks in AHRI surveillance setting are eligible, with sub-samples randomly selected and approached to participate.","data_kind":"Survey data of trackers, recruitment into intervention, attendance at intervention, and attendance in clinical management systems."},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"We randomly selected 100 men aged 18-35 from week blocks, close to Somekele using the AHRI surveillance data. These men were approached and invited to participate in the intervention. Those who agreed were provided with information on the first session.\n\nWe also approached other men living in the same community, also aged 18-35 years, through peer navigators, who may be interested in the study.\n\nMen who attended any intervention session, provided attendance data.","cleaning_operations":"Electronic attendance records were crossed checked with paper attendance records, to finalise, by SAMRC and AHRI."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conditions":"The representative of the Receiving Organization agrees to comply with the following conditions:\n\n1. Access to the restricted data will be limited to the Lead Researcher and other members of the research team listed in this request.\n2. Copies of the restricted data or any data created on the basis of the original data will not be copied or made available to anyone other than those mentioned in this Data Access Agreement, unless formally authorized by the Data Archive.\n3. The data will only be processed for the stated statistical and research purpose. They will be used for solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations. Data will not in any way be used for any administrative, proprietary or law enforcement purposes. \n4. The Lead Researcher must state if it is their intention to match the restricted microdata with any other micro-dataset. If any matching is to take place, details must be provided of the datasets to be matched and of the reasons for the matching. Any datasets created as a result of matching will be considered to be restricted and must comply with the terms of this Data Access Agreement.\n5. The Lead Researcher undertakes that no attempt will be made to identify any individual person, family, business, enterprise or organization. If such a unique disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered and full details will be reported to the Data Archive. The identification will not be revealed to any other person not included in the Data Access Agreement.\n6. The Lead Researcher will implement security measures to prevent unauthorized access to licensed microdata acquired from the Data Archive. The microdata must be destroyed upon the completion of this research, unless the Data Archive obtains satisfactory guarantee that the data can be secured and provides written authorization to the Receiving Organization to retain them. Destruction of the microdata will be confirmed in writing by the Lead Researcher to the Data Archive.\n7. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Data Archive will cite the source of data in accordance with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.\n8. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the Data Archive.\n9. The original collector of the data, the Data Archive, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.\n10. This agreement will come into force on the date that approval is given for access to the restricted dataset and remain in force until the completion date of the project or an earlier date if the project is completed ahead of time.\n11. If there are any changes to the project specification, security arrangements, personnel or organization detailed in this application form, it is the responsibility of the Lead Researcher to seek the agreement of the Data Archive to these changes. Where there is a change to the employer organization of the Lead Researcher this will involve a new application being made and termination of the original project.\n12. Breaches of the agreement will be taken seriously and the Data Archive will take action against those responsible for the lapse if willful or accidental. Failure to comply with the directions of the Data Archive will be deemed to be a major breach of the agreement and may involve recourse to legal proceedings. The Data Archive will maintain and share with partner data archives a register of those individuals and organizations which are responsible for breaching the terms of the Data Access Agreement and will impose sanctions on release of future data to these parties."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"Stepping-stones"}]}