Multicomponent Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk and Substance Use

Hunter College of City University of New York

Status

Completed

Conditions

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Substance Use

HIV

Treatments

Behavioral: MI + CBST Intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT01880489

R01DA034661 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective is to expand and refine an intervention for transgender women (TW) into a 7-session individual- and group-based intervention that is scalable for community settings to reduce sexual risk and substance use and to increase stigma-coping and risk-buffering behaviors among TW in NYC. The investigators will pilot test the intervention with 20 TW and subsequently, conduct a randomized controlled trial with 240 TW to compare the intervention to a wait list control condition.

Enrollment

143 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18 years of age or older
Identify as a transgender woman (assigned male at birth and currently identify as female)
Report 3 or more acts of unprotected anal or vaginal sex in the past 90 days and at least 1 in the past 30 days
Report 5 or more days of illicit drug use in the past 90 days and at least 2 in the past 30
Provide contact information
Reside in the NYC metropolitan area
Able to complete a survey in English (Spanish-language assistance can be provided by bilingual staff)
Provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Unstable, serious psychiatric symptoms
Current suicidal/homicidal ideation
Evidence of gross cognitive impairment
Currently enrolled in a drug abuse treatment or enrolled in an HIV risk or drug use intervention study