Intervention for Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behavior in Homeless Youth

RanD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Use; Unprotected Sex

Treatments: Behavioral: AWARE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03735784

R01AA025641

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate a program called AWARE, which is a voluntary four session group-based motivational interviewing (MI) intervention to reduce substance use and sexual risk behavior among 18-25 year olds who are experiencing homelessness. The hypothesis is that participants who receive AWARE will show greater reductions in substance use and sexual risk behavior over a 12 month period compared to participants who do not receive the program.

Enrollment: 276 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18 to 25; seeking services at one of the participating drop-in centers; no cognitive impairment observed during the screening process; planning to be in the study area for the next month; has either an email account or cell phone where they can be reached; and English speaking.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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276 participants in 2 patient groups

AWARE condition

Experimental group

Description:

AWARE is a four-session Motivational Interviewing (MI)-informed group risk reduction intervention that incorporates education, skills building and personalized feedback.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AWARE

Standard Care condition

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the Standard Care condition have access to "usual care" at the drop-in center where the study is being conducted.