Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk: An Intervention

NCT ID: NCT00914719

Last Updated: 2024-01-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2002-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2002-09-30

Brief Summary

Adolescents are at great risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (CDC, 2000a; DiLorenzo & Whaley, 1999). Though the CDC (2000b) reports that overall AIDS incidence is on the decline, there has been no comparable decline in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among young people aged 13-19, and young people of color are particularly at risk. Compared to the general adolescent population, adolescents involved with the criminal justice system are younger at first intercourse, have a greater number of sex partners, and lower rates of condom use, resulting in higher rates of unintended pregnancy and STDs (e.g., St. Lawrence et al., 1999). Alcohol use is commonly cited as a reason for lack of condom use among high-risk adolescents such as those involved in the criminal justice system (e.g., Morris et al., 1998) and recent data from our research suggests that it is heavy alcohol use in concert with sexual activity that is most strongly related to lack of condom use (Bryan, Rocheleau, & Robbins, 2002a). The goal of this research is to design, implement, evaluation, and disseminate a successful HIV/STD risk reduction intervention that is theory-based, empirically targeted to adolescents, and articulated to a criminal justice setting. The study compares a sexual risk reduction intervention with a group motivational interviewing alcohol component to a standard sexual risk reduction intervention and a no treatment control condition. The investigators hope to show that: 1) A three-hour one-time intervention has the capacity to reduce sexual risk behavior up to one year post-release among high risk adolescents in detention, 2) A combined sexual and alcohol risk reduction intervention will result in larger decreases in sexual risk behavior than a sexual risk reduction alone, 3) The interventions will exert their effects through changes in mediators derived from a theoretically-based model of condom use intentions and behaviors, and 4) A sexual risk reduction intervention including an alcohol component will be especially effective for those adolescents with higher levels of existing alcohol problems. Finally, given proven efficacy, the intervention curricula and materials will be disseminated for use in adolescent detention facilities throughout the state.

Conditions

Sexual Risk Behavior; Alcohol Use; Drug Use

Study Design

• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION

Study Groups

Information only

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Information only

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

sexual risk reduction intervention

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Sexual risk reduction intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

SRRI+ETOH

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

sexual risk reduction + alcohol risk reduction component

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

Information only

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Sexual risk reduction intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

sexual risk reduction + alcohol risk reduction component

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All young people between the ages of 14 and 17 who were in the detention centers at which recruitment took place.

Exclusion Criteria

• Age less than 14 or non-English speaking

• Minimum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 17 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of New Mexico

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

University of New Mexico

Locations

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Countries

United States

References

Bryan A, Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR. Mediational analysis in HIV/AIDS research: estimating multivariate path analytic models in a structural equation modeling framework. AIDS Behav. 2007 May;11(3):365-83. doi: 10.1007/s10461-006-9150-2.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 16917669 (View on PubMed)

Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR, Levin M, Bryan AD. Randomized trial of group interventions to reduce HIV/STD risk and change theoretical mediators among detained adolescents. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2009 Feb;77(1):38-50. doi: 10.1037/a0014513.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 19170452 (View on PubMed)

Bryan AD, Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR. HIV risk reduction among detained adolescents: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2009 Dec;124(6):e1180-8. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0679. Epub 2009 Nov 9.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 19901006 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

R01AA013844-01

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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