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Healthy Choices to Promote Health and Reduce Risk in HIV-Infected Youth

NCT00103532 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 225

Last updated 2019-03-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Risk behaviors and their associated adverse health outcomes are becoming increasingly problematic among HIV-infected youth. This study is being conducted to test whether a brief motivational enhancement (ME) intervention will help reduce health risk behaviors (drug and alcohol use, sexual risk behavior, poor adherence to medications) among HIV+ youth.

Conditions

  • HIV Infection

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Healthy Choices - Motivational Enhancement Intervention

Participants who are randomized to the intervention group will participate in four sessions (over approximately 3 months) of Healthy Choices; a motivational enhancement intervention specifically designed to target multiple risk behaviors in HIV+ youth. Participants will receive individualized referrals at the fourth session.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard care

Participants will receive standard care plus referrals at three months post-baseline

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sylvie Naar-King, PhD · Children's Hospital of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-03-31
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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