HIV/STD Safer Sex Skills Groups for Women in Drug Treatment Programs - 1

New York State Psychiatric Institute

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Behavior Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavior Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00084188

NIDA-CTN-0019-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to look at a program for women in drug abuse treatment designed to reduce Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Sexually Transmitted Disease (HIV/STD) risk behaviors and reduce unprotected sexual risk behavior.

Full description

The proposed trial is intended to test the effectiveness of a proven, manual driven, five-session safer sexual skills building group (SSB) intervention (Schilling et al., 1991; El Bassel and Schilling, 1992) for female patients in MMTP or in drug-free outpatient treatment. The effects of SSB will be compared to a standard group HIV education session (HE).

This study uses a 2-group, randomized, parallel-group design to compare a five-session safer sexual skills building group to a single 60-min HIV education session (control condition). The control condition is designed to standardize and simulate the usual care at community clinics.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Adult females (18 years of age or older) in drug abuse treatment at participating Community Treatment Programs are invited to participate.