Affect Management for Early Adolescents

Lifespan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Affect Management; Behavioral: General Health Promotion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01197404

R01NR011906

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug use behavior initiated during early adolescence, and those with mental health problems appear to be particularly susceptible. Problems with managing emotions may make it difficult for early adolescents to make good decisions about sexual and substance use behaviors. This project will develop and evaluate interventions for early adolescents with mental health issues. An intervention focused on teaching affect management skills will be compared to an intervention addressing a variety of health topics to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among this at-risk population.

Enrollment: 420 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Seventh graders identified by counselors at participating public school.

Exclusion criteria

• Adolescent is HIV positive.
• Adolescent is developmentally delayed.
• Adolescent is pregnant.
• Adolescent has a history of sexual crime.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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420 participants in 2 patient groups

General Health Promotion

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: General Health Promotion

Affect Management

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Affect Management