Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
J Adolesc Health. 2023 May;72(5):712-721. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.12.009. Epub 2023 Feb 16.
PURPOSE: This study aims to describe the cohort of Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) research program participants and evaluate whether the ATN's recently completed 5-year cycle recruited study participants who parallel the populations most impacted by HIV in the United States. METHODS: Harmonized measures across ATN studies collected at baseline were aggregated for participants aged 13-24 years. Pooled means and proportions stratified by HIV status (at risk for or living with HIV) were calculated using unweighted averages of study-specific aggregate data. Medians were estimated using a weighted median of medians method. Public use 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance data for state-level new HIV diagnoses and HIV prevalence among US youth aged 13-24 years were obtained for use as reference populations for ATN at-risk youth and youth living with HIV (YLWH), respectively. RESULTS: Data from 3,185 youth at-risk for HIV and 542 YLWH were pooled from 21 ATN study phases conducted across the United States. Among ATN studies tailored to at-risk youth, a higher proportion of participants were White and a lower proportion were Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx compared to youth newly diagnosed with HIV in the United States in 2019. Participants in ATN studies tailored to YLWH were demographically similar to YLWH in the United States. DISCUSSION: The development of data harmonization guidelines for ATN research activities facilitated this cross-network pooled analysis. These findings suggest the ATN's YLWH are representative, but that future studies of at-risk youth should prioritize recruitment strategies to enroll more participants from African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations.
目的:本研究旨在描述艾滋病病毒干预青少年医学试验网络(ATN)研究项目参与者队列,并评估 ATN 最近完成的 5 年周期是否招募了与美国受 HIV 影响最大人群相似的研究参与者。
方法:对 ATN 研究中在基线收集的协调措施进行了汇总,纳入年龄在 13-24 岁的参与者。使用研究特定汇总数据的无权重平均值,对 HIV 状况(有感染 HIV 风险或感染 HIV 者)分层的汇总平均值和比例进行了计算。中位数采用加权中位数法进行估计。获得了美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)2019 年的公共使用数据,用于州一级新的 HIV 诊断和美国 13-24 岁青年的 HIV 流行率,分别作为 ATN 有感染 HIV 风险的青年和感染 HIV 的青年(YLWH)的参考人群。
结果:从在美国进行的 21 个 ATN 研究阶段中,共汇集了 3185 名有感染 HIV 风险的青年和 542 名 YLWH 的数据。在针对有感染 HIV 风险青年的 ATN 研究中,与 2019 年美国新诊断为 HIV 的青年相比,参与者中白人的比例较高,而黑人/非裔美国人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔的比例较低。针对 YLWH 的 ATN 研究参与者在人口统计学上与美国的 YLWH 相似。
讨论:ATN 研究活动的数据协调指南的制定促进了这项跨网络汇总分析。这些发现表明,ATN 的 YLWH 具有代表性,但未来针对有感染 HIV 风险的青年的研究应优先考虑招募策略,以招募更多来自非裔美国人和西班牙裔/拉丁裔人群的参与者。
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