NCT01169922

HIV Prevention With Adolescents: Neurocognitive Deficits and Treatment Response

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of New Mexico · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research is examining how genetic and brain factors play a role in adolescents' health risk behavior as well as studying behaviors that young people engage in that may place them at risk for contracting a sexually transmitted disease like HIV/AIDS, and what kind of educational program works best to reduce these risky behaviors.

Detailed description

A baseline assessment is conducted, including a computer questionnaire assessing personality characteristics, attitudes toward and experiences with sex, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, among other things. The participant also meets with a therapist to conduct a brief motivational interview at this time. A "Time-Line Follow-Back" is conducted; this notes incidences of sexual intercourse, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cigarette use in a 30-day period. An fMRI is conducted, and a saliva sample is gathered. During the second session of the study, participants are randomly assigned to either a sex and alcohol risk reduction intervention, or a sex risk reduction intervention. After the intervention, participants are contacted at 3 month intervals (3 months later, 6 months later, 9 months later, and 12 months later) to meet. At these "follow-up" meetings, another Time-Line Follow-Back is conducted, along with another computer questionnaire (again assessing attitudes toward and experiences with sex, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes).

Conditions

• Risk Reduction Behavior
• Sexual Behavior
• Health Behavior
• Drinking Behavior
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SEXUAL RISK REDUCTION + ALCOHOL RISK REDUCTION	2 hour 50 minute long intervention; includes presentation of STD/HIV facts, activities/games regarding safe sex, condom demonstration, video about sexual decision making, video about alcohol/sexual decision making, alcohol-related risk-reduction motivational interview, group discussion
BEHAVIORAL	INFORMATION-ONLY SEXUAL RISK REDUCTION	1 hour 30 minute long intervention; includes presentation of STD/HIV facts, video about sexually transmitted diseases, review of STD/HIV facts

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-10-01
• Primary completion: 2007-10-01
• Completion: 2007-10-01
• First posted: 2010-07-26
• Last updated: 2024-01-10

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States