ERIC Number: EJ809458
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 48
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-1981
A Brief, Low-Cost, Theory-Based Intervention to Promote Dual Method Use by Black and Latina Female Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Roye, Carol; Perlmutter Silverman, Paula; Krauss, Beatrice
Health Education & Behavior, v34 n4 p608-621 2007
HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects young women of color. Young women who use hormonal contraception are less likely to use condoms. Brief, inexpensive HIV-prevention interventions are needed for high-volume clinics. This study was a randomized clinical trial of two interventions: (a) a video made for this study and (b) an adaptation of Project RESPECT counseling. Four hundred Black and Latina teenage women completed a questionnaire about their sexual behaviors and were randomly assigned to (a) see the video, (b) get counseling, (c) see the video and get counseling, or (d) receive usual care. At 3-month follow-up, those who saw the video and received counseling were 2.5 times more likely to have used a condom at last intercourse with their main partner than teens in the usual care group. These differences did not persist at 12-month follow-up. This suggests that a brief intervention can positively affect condom use in the short term. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Contraception, Intervention, Females, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Adolescents, Sexuality, Clinics, Hispanic Americans, Prevention, Videotape Recordings, Counseling, African Americans
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