Project RAP: Family-based HIV Prevention in the Juvenile Drug Court

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV/AIDS

Treatments: Other: Adolescent Only Health Promotion; Behavioral: Family-Based HIV prevention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01403298

5K23DA021532

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to compare the effect of a family-based HIV prevention program to the effect of an adolescent-only health promotion program on adolescent HIV risk and marijuana use among adolescents enrolled in the Juvenile Drug Court (JDC) of the Rhode Island Family Court.

Full description

Adolescents and parents admitted to our study receive either an adolescent-only health education program that focuses on general health risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS, smoking, diet and exercise or one that focuses on family-based HIV/AIDS education through safe decision-making and control of one's emotions as well as parent-child interactions that are associated with dysregulated affect, subsequent parenting deficits and adolescent HIV risk behaviors.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 13 to 18 years old;
• male and female;
• in Rhode Island Family Court - Intake and Juvenile Drug Court program;
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• HIV infection (by self-report);
• history of sex crimes,
• current pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Adolescent Only Health Promotion

Active Comparator group

Description:

An individual adolescent-only health education program that focuses on risk behaviors related to HIV/AIDS, smoking, diet and exercise

Treatment:

Other: Adolescent Only Health Promotion

Family-Based HIV prevention

Experimental group

Description:

This individual, family-based intervention provides sex and HIV/AIDS education as part of a family-based general health education program that focuses on safe decision-making and how to control emotions to stay safe and improve parenting skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family-Based HIV prevention