HIV/STD Safer Sex Skills Groups for Women in Drug Treatment Programs

New York State Psychiatric Institute12 sites in 1 country541 target enrollmentMay 2004

ConditionsBehavior Therapy

Overview

Phase: Phase 3
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Behavior Therapy
Sponsor: New York State Psychiatric Institute
Enrollment: 541
Locations: 12
Primary Endpoint: AIDS risk behavior
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 9 years ago

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Overview

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to look at a program for women in drug abuse treatment designed to reduce Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Sexually Transmitted Disease (HIV/STD) risk behaviors and reduce unprotected sexual risk behavior.

Detailed Description

The proposed trial is intended to test the effectiveness of a proven, manual driven, five-session safer sexual skills building group (SSB) intervention (Schilling et al., 1991; El Bassel and Schilling, 1992) for female patients in MMTP or in drug-free outpatient treatment. The effects of SSB will be compared to a standard group HIV education session (HE). This study uses a 2-group, randomized, parallel-group design to compare a five-session safer sexual skills building group to a single 60-min HIV education session (control condition). The control condition is designed to standardize and simulate the usual care at community clinics.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

May 2004

End Date

October 2005

Last Updated

9 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

Female