NCT01197404

Affect Management for Early Adolescents

Affect Management Intervention for Early Adolescents With Mental Health Problems

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 420 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rhode Island Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug use behavior initiated during early adolescence, and those with mental health problems appear to be particularly susceptible. Problems with managing emotions may make it difficult for early adolescents to make good decisions about sexual and substance use behaviors. This project will develop and evaluate interventions for early adolescents with mental health issues. An intervention focused on teaching affect management skills will be compared to an intervention addressing a variety of health topics to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among this at-risk population.

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	General Health Promotion	12-session group intervention including health information on a variety of developmentally relevant health topics.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-11-01
• First posted: 2010-09-09
• Last updated: 2016-03-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States