HIV Prevention With Adolescents: Neurocognitive Deficits and Treatment Response

Status:	Archived
Conditions:	Healthy Studies, Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:	Psychiatry / Psychology, Other
Healthy:	No
Age Range:	Any
Updated:	7/1/2011
Start Date:	October 2007

This research is examining how genetic and brain factors play a role in adolescents' health
risk behavior as well as studying behaviors that young people engage in that may place them
at risk for contracting a sexually transmitted disease like HIV/AIDS, and what kind of
educational program works best to reduce these risky behaviors.

A baseline assessment is conducted, including a computer questionnaire assessing personality
characteristics, attitudes toward and experiences with sex, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes,
among other things. The participant also meets with a therapist to conduct a brief
motivational interview at this time. A "Time-Line Follow-Back" is conducted; this notes
incidences of sexual intercourse, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cigarette use in a 30-day
period. An fMRI is conducted, and a saliva sample is gathered. During the second session of
the study, participants are randomly assigned to either a sex and alcohol risk reduction
intervention, or a sex risk reduction intervention. After the intervention, participants are
contacted at 3 month intervals (3 months later, 6 months later, 9 months later, and 12
months later) to meet. At these "follow-up" meetings, another Time-Line Follow-Back is
conducted, along with another computer questionnaire (again assessing attitudes toward and
experiences with sex, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes).

We found this trial at

sites

Youth Reporting Center (Youth Services Center)

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107

from

Albuquerque, NM