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HIV Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention

An Evidence-Based Practice

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Description

This community-based intervention program teaches women specific social skills that reduce HIV risk behavior. The intervention has five sessions that emphasize ethnic and gender pride, HIV risk-reduction information, sexual self-control, sexual assertiveness and communication skills, proper condom use skills, and developing partner norms supportive of consistent condom use. These sessions are designed to be culturally sensitive and gender relevant.

Goal / Mission

To increase consistent condom use among low-income African American young adults.

Results / Accomplishments

Women who participated in the social skills intervention demonstrated increased consistent condom use (p=0.04), greater sexual self-control (p=0.05), greater sexual communication (p=0.002), greater sexual assertiveness (p=0.05), and increased partners' adoption of norms supporting consistent condom use (p=0.03) when compared to a control group of women who did not participate in the intervention.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Primary Contact
Ralph DiClemente, Ph.D.
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
1518 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
(404) 727-0237
rdiclem@sph.emory.edu
Topics
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Organization(s)
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Source
Urban Institute
Date of publication
1995
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
San Francisco, CA
For more details
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7563531
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/TeenRiskTaking_2....
Target Audience
Teens, Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Additional Audience
low-income African Americans

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.
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