🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2026-08-14

Kentucky Outreach Service Kiosk (KyOSK): Reducing HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risk (NCT05657106)

Kentucky Outreach Service Kiosk (KyOSK): Addressing Health Needs and Improving Service Linkage in Rural Appalachia Through Health Kiosks

🔵 Active, Not Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic 🧠 Behavioral & Psychological Program Sponsor: April M Young

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

This study will test the effectiveness, implementation outcomes, and cost effectiveness of a locally-tailored, health kiosk to reduce overdose, hepatitis C, and HIV risk behavior and improve linkage to care in rural Appalachia. The proposed project will take place in two counties in Appalachian Kentucky, an epicenter for the intertwined national crises of overdoses, hepatitis C, and injection-related infections.

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (4 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (8 items).

Location: University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky

Age range: 18 Years

🧪 Interventions in This Study

  • Health kiosk (BEHAVIORAL)

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria: Individuals are not eligible if they meet any of the exclusion criteria:
  • being under the age of 18,
  • not living in the intervention or comparison county,
  • having not engaged in injection or non-injection illicit drug use to get high in the past 6 months (excluding marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco),
  • not being able to speak or understand English,
  • conviction in the past 10 years of a violent crime (i.e., murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and /or aggravated assault) or stalking,
  • current charges of violent crime or stalking, or
  • having plans to move out of the study counties in the next 6 months, or residing in an inpatient facility.

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)

  • University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.

💡 How to Participate

  1. Check the checklist above to see if you may qualify.
  2. Review the official NIH record below to find the coordinating site.
  3. Ask about the visit schedule, what is covered at no cost, and any travel support.
  4. Confirm with your own doctor before making a decision.
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