NCT00748800

An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 95 (actual)
• 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 initiated during this developmental period. Adolescents in the juvenile justice system are at increased risk for HIV due to higher rates of substance use and psychopathology than their non-offending peers. Juvenile justice youth may therefore also be less likely to benefit from frequently used skills based interventions. It appears that emotional lability, frequently found in this population, disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate an affect management HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in a juvenile drug court program. Affect management and general health promotion interventions will be compared to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents in the drug court.

Conditions

• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Affect Management	5 session group intervention that focused on teaching affect management skills and included HIV prevention and sexual health training
BEHAVIORAL	General Health Promotion	5 session group focused on delivering general health promotion information in didactic format

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-09-01
• Primary completion: 2007-05-01
• Completion: 2007-10-01
• First posted: 2008-09-09
• Last updated: 2009-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States