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Preventing Health Damaging Behaviors in Male and Female Army Recruits

NCT01234103 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 933

Last updated 2017-08-25

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Summary

Health damaging (risk) behaviors of young military personnel are reflections of health problems facing all young people in the U.S. Military life presents opportunities and challenges that may both protect against and place young troops at risk for health damaging behaviors. Challenges for maintaining a healthy armed force include high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancies (UIPs), misuse of alcohol and other substances. The common thread through these negative health outcomes is volitional behavior. Such behaviors do not only result in illness or injury, but also negatively impact performance of military duties and threaten military readiness. Despite military leadership in setting standards and policies regarding professional behavior and universal health care for preventing and eliminating such negative health outcomes, many health problems remain. Building on our previous military research, we will evaluate the effectiveness a cognitive-behavioral, skills-building intervention to prevent and reduce young troops' risk for and acquisition of STIs and UIPs and will seek to reduce a number of their associated risk factors including, alcohol misuse, other substance use, and victimization due to IPV in male and female U.S. Army soldiers who are receiving Advance Individual Training (AIT) in Fort Jackson, SC.

Conditions

  • Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention
  • Unintended Pregnancy Prevention
  • Sexual Risk Reduction
  • Alcohol and Other Substance Use Prevention
  • Intimate Partner Violence Prevention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Preventing Helath Damaging Health Behaviors in Male and Female Army Recruits

Groups will be randomly assigned to the sexual/substance use prevention intervention or the comparative/control intervention focused on impro risk Involves 10 hours of didactic presentations, interactive group discussions, skills-building exercises, and topic specific videos to reduce participants' risk for and acquisition of STIs, unintended pregnancies and their associated sexual and substance use behaviors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Department of Defense

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Cherrie B Boyer, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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