Therapeutic Schools: Affect Management and HIV Prevention

Lifespan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Affect Management; Behavioral: General Health Promotion; Behavioral: HIV Prevention Skills

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00500487

R01MH066641 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug behavior intiated during this developmental period. Those with psychological distress are less likely than their peers to benefit from frequently used skills-based interventions. It appears that emotional lability during sexual situations disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate interventions for adolescents with psychiatric disorders who are in therapeutic school settings. Affect management and skills-based interventions will be compared to a didactic standard of care condition to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents with psychiatric disorders in therapeutic school settings.

Enrollment: 420 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent attending therapeutic school

Exclusion criteria

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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420 participants in 3 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Affect Management

2

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: HIV Prevention Skills

3

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: General Health Promotion