Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk: An Intervention

NCT00914719 | Withdrawn

• 1 other identifier: R01AA013844-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Adolescents are at great risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (CDC, 2000a; DiLorenzo \& Whaley, 1999). Though the CDC (2000b) reports that overall AIDS incidence is on the decline, there has been no comparable decline in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among young people aged 13-19, and young people of color are particularly at risk. Compared to the general adolescent population, adolescents involved with the criminal justice system are younger at first intercourse, have a greater number of sex partners, and lower rates of condom use, resulting in higher rates of unintended pregnancy and STDs (e.g., St. Lawrence et al., 1999). Alcohol use is commonly cited as a reason for lack of condom use among high-risk adolescents such as those involved in the criminal justice system (e.g., Morris et al., 1998) and recent data from our research suggests that it is heavy alcohol use in concert with sexual activity that is most strongly related to lack of condom use (Bryan, Rocheleau, \& Robbins, 2002a). The goal of this research is to design, implement, evaluation, and disseminate a successful HIV/STD risk reduction intervention that is theory-based, empirically targeted to adolescents, and articulated to a criminal justice setting. The study compares a sexual risk reduction intervention with a group motivational interviewing alcohol component to a standard sexual risk reduction intervention and a no treatment control condition. The investigators hope to show that: 1) A three-hour one-time intervention has the capacity to reduce sexual risk behavior up to one year post-release among high risk adolescents in detention, 2) A combined sexual and alcohol risk reduction intervention will result in larger decreases in sexual risk behavior than a sexual risk reduction alone, 3) The interventions will exert their effects through changes in mediators derived from a theoretically-based model of condom use intentions and behaviors, and 4) A sexual risk reduction intervention including an alcohol component will be especially effective for those adolescents with higher levels of existing alcohol problems. Finally, given proven efficacy, the intervention curricula and materials will be disseminated for use in adolescent detention facilities throughout the state.

Conditions

Sexual Risk Behavior; Alcohol Use; Drug Use

Keywords

sexual risk behavior among adolescents; alcohol and drug use among adolescents

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Condom use

  one year

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• alcohol use

  one year

Study Arms (3)

Information only

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Information only

sexual risk reduction intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Behavioral: Sexual risk reduction intervention

SRRI+ETOH

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: sexual risk reduction + alcohol risk reduction component

Interventions

Information only BEHAVIORAL

Information only

Sexual risk reduction intervention BEHAVIORAL

sexual risk reduction intervention

sexual risk reduction + alcohol risk reduction component BEHAVIORAL

SRRI+ETOH

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• All young people between the ages of 14 and 17 who were in the detention centers at which recruitment took place.

You may not qualify if:

• Age less than 14 or non-English speaking

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of New Mexico: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colorado, 80309, United States

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Bryan A, Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR. Mediational analysis in HIV/AIDS research: estimating multivariate path analytic models in a structural equation modeling framework. AIDS Behav. 2007 May;11(3):365-83. doi: 10.1007/s10461-006-9150-2.

  PMID: 16917669 BACKGROUND

• Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR, Levin M, Bryan AD. Randomized trial of group interventions to reduce HIV/STD risk and change theoretical mediators among detained adolescents. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2009 Feb;77(1):38-50. doi: 10.1037/a0014513.

  PMID: 19170452 RESULT

• Bryan AD, Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR. HIV risk reduction among detained adolescents: a randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2009 Dec;124(6):e1180-8. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-0679. Epub 2009 Nov 9.

  PMID: 19901006 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking

Interventions

Ethanol

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Drinking Behavior; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Alcohols; Organic Chemicals

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 3, 2009
• First Posted: June 5, 2009
• Study Start: September 1, 2002
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2002
• Study Completion: September 1, 2002
• Last Updated: January 11, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-01

Locations

US (1)