NCT00831883

Partner-Specific HIV Risk Reduction Intervention for Drug-Using Adolescents

Partner-Specific HIV Risk Reduction Intervention for Drug-Using Incarcerated Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot test a partner-specific HIV risk reduction intervention for currently or recently incarcerated adolescents who report problematic substance use.

Detailed description

Incarcerated adolescents represent a group at high risk for health consequences associated with risky sexual behaviors. Condom use is more common with non-main than main sex partners and substance use in conjunction with sexual risk also appears to vary by partner type. The research team will conduct a small randomized trial to pilot test a partner-specific HIV risk reduction intervention for currently or recently incarcerated adolescents who report problematic substance use. Participants will be randomized to a 5 session HIV risk reduction group intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model, or a 5 session healthy lifestyles psychoeducation intervention, and then reassessed 3 months after their access to the general community is reinstated. The main hypothesis is that participants in the HIV risk reduction intervention condition will have lower levels of sex-related HIV risk behavior and of substance use in conjunction with sexual risk, relative to those in a healthy lifestyles psychoeducation intervention.

Conditions

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Substance-Related Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Partner-Specific IMB-based HIV risk reduction intervention	5 session partner-specific HIV risk reduction group intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model.
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Lifestyle	5 session psychoeducational group, designed to provide equivalent time and attention, that focuses on the importance of maintaining a good diet, exercise, and developing health skills.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2009-01-29
• Last updated: 2012-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States