An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders
- Conditions
- HIV Infections
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Affect ManagementBehavioral: General Health Promotion
- Registration Number
- NCT00748800
- Lead Sponsor
- Rhode Island Hospital
- Brief 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 95
- Adolescents enrolled in the juvenile drug court program
- Adolescent is HIV positive
- Adolescent is pregnant
- Adolescent is developmentally delayed
- Adolescent has history of sexual crime
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 1 Affect Management - 2 General Health Promotion -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adolescent-reported sexual activity and condom use 3 month post-intervention
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adolescent substance use (self-report and urine toxicology screen results) 3 months post-intervention
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Rhode Island Hospital
🇺🇸Providence, Rhode Island, United States