Project RAP: Family-based HIV Prevention in the Juvenile Drug Court

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: HIV/AIDS
• Interventions: Other: Adolescent Only Health Promotion; Behavioral: Family-Based HIV prevention

• Registration Number: NCT01403298
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to compare the effect of a family-based HIV prevention program to the effect of an adolescent-only health promotion program on adolescent HIV risk and marijuana use among adolescents enrolled in the Juvenile Drug Court (JDC) of the Rhode Island Family Court.

Detailed Description

Adolescents and parents admitted to our study receive either an adolescent-only health education program that focuses on general health risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS, smoking, diet and exercise or one that focuses on family-based HIV/AIDS education through safe decision-making and control of one's emotions as well as parent-child interactions that are associated with dysregulated affect, subsequent parenting deficits and adolescent HIV risk behaviors.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-12
• Study First Submitted: 2011-03-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-07-26
• Study First Posted: 2011-07-27
• Primary Completion: 2013-06
• Study Completion: 2013-06
• Status Verified: 2020-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-05-08
• Last Update Posted: 2020-05-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• 13 to 18 years old;
• male and female;
• in Rhode Island Family Court - Intake and Juvenile Drug Court program;
• English speaking

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Exclusion Criteria

• HIV infection (by self-report);
• history of sex crimes,
• current pregnancy

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Adolescent Only Health Promotion	Adolescent Only Health Promotion	An individual adolescent-only health education program that focuses on risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS, smoking, diet and exercise
Family-Based HIV prevention	Family-Based HIV prevention	This individual, family-based intervention provides sex and HIV/AIDS education as part of a family-based general health education program that focuses on safe decision-making and how to control emotions to stay safe and improve parenting skills.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
adolescent HIV/STD risk	3 months post intervention	Adolescent self-report of rates of condom use, number of sex partners, number of unprotected vaginal and/or anal intercourse episodes, frequency of alcohol use during sexual activity, frequency of marijuana use during sexual activity, frequency of other drug use during sexual activity
adolescent substance use	3 months post-intervention	Adolescent self-report of quantity and frequency of marijuana use, alcohol use and other drug use over the past 3 months and over the past 30 days. Collateral urine toxicology screen data will also be available for analysis.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Scores on measures of parent-child communication (general and sex-specific),parental monitoring and family emotional environment	3 months post intervention	Using well-established parenting and family-based measures, such as the Parental Knowledge scales (for monitoring), Parent-Child Communication Scales (general and sexually-specific), and the Family Assessment Device (FAD), we will be obtaining both parent and adolescent report of these constructs.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Rhode Island Hospital; 🇺🇸 Providence, Rhode Island, United States