Change in AIDS risk behaviors among impoverished minority women after a community-based cognitive-behavioral outreach program
✍ Scribed by Judith A. Stein; Adeline Nyamathi; Raynard Kington
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
We assess the impact after two years of two randomly assigned cognitivebehavioral community-based AIDS interventions for high-risk impoverished
African American (N ϭ 353) and Latina (N ϭ 31) women residing in homeless shelters or drug treatment facilities. We also contrast the study participants with untreated, newly recruited controls. An in-depth Specialized program provided AIDS information, and psychosocial and behavioral skill enhancement; a shorter Traditional program provided basic AIDS information. Both treatment groups received information about available community resources. At follow-up, women exposed to either program reported significant decreases from their baseline scores in unprotected sexual activity, illegal activities (providing sex for drugs or money), cocaine use, heroin use, and high risk drug-related behaviors such as sex with injection-drug users and needle-sharing. After controlling for preexisting differences between the groups and whether they were in drug treatment, we found that the specialized group reported less cocaine use and