NCT00996541

Support To Reunite Involve and Value Each Other

Diverting Homeless Youth From Chronic Homelessness and Risk for HIV

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 302 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Runaway and homeless youth are at risk for HIV based upon their rates of substance use, particularly injection drug use, unprotected sexual intercourse, multiple partners, and sexually transmitted diseases. Risk increases as the time away from home increases. STRIVE is a family intervention aimed at increasing residential stability, decreasing runaway episodes, and decreasing HIV risk. Families are randomly assigned to a cognitive-behavioral skills-building intervention consisting of five weekly sessions delivered at family homes, or are assigned to standard care. Sessions are aimed at increasing problem solving, role clarity, and positive interactions. It is hypothesized that the intervention will result in improved family dynamics, less runaway behavior, and less risky behavior.

Conditions

• Family Relations
• Runaway Behavior
• Risky Sexual Behavior
• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	STRIVE family intervention	Adolescent and parent attend a 5-session family-oriented cognitive-behavioral intervention aimed at giving runaway youths and their parents the tools to effectively deal with conflict.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2009-10-16
• Last updated: 2023-05-15