NCT00500487

Therapeutic Schools: Affect Management and HIV Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 420 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Rhode Island Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug behavior intiated during this developmental period. Those with psychological distress are less likely than their peers to benefit from frequently used skills-based interventions. It appears that emotional lability during sexual situations disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate interventions for adolescents with psychiatric disorders who are in therapeutic school settings. Affect management and skills-based interventions will be compared to a didactic standard of care condition to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents with psychiatric disorders in therapeutic school settings.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Affect Management	12-session group intervention including affect management training as well as sexual health skills training.
BEHAVIORAL	HIV Prevention Skills	12-session group intervention including sexual health skills training.
BEHAVIORAL	General Health Promotion	12-session group intervention including health information on a variety of health topics.

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2007-07-12
• Last updated: 2015-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States