An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders

Lifespan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: HIV Infections

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

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00748800

R21DA019245

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug behavior initiated during this developmental period. Adolescents in the juvenile justice system are at increased risk for HIV due to higher rates of substance use and psychopathology than their non-offending peers. Juvenile justice youth may therefore also be less likely to benefit from frequently used skills based interventions. It appears that emotional lability, frequently found in this population, disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate an affect management HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in a juvenile drug court program. Affect management and general health promotion interventions will be compared to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents in the drug court.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescents enrolled in the juvenile drug court program

Exclusion criteria

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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95 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Affect Management

2

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: General Health Promotion