HIV/STD Safer Sex Skills Groups for Women in Drug Treatment Programs - 1

Status:	Completed
Conditions:	Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:	Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:	No
Age Range:	18 - 99
Updated:	1/13/2017
Start Date:	May 2004
End Date:	October 2005

HIV/STD Safer Sex Skills Groups for Women in Drug Treatment Programs

The purpose of this study is to look at a program for women in drug abuse treatment designed
to reduce Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Sexually Transmitted Disease (HIV/STD) risk behaviors
and reduce unprotected sexual risk behavior.

The proposed trial is intended to test the effectiveness of a proven, manual driven,
five-session safer sexual skills building group (SSB) intervention (Schilling et al., 1991;
El Bassel and Schilling, 1992) for female patients in MMTP or in drug-free outpatient
treatment. The effects of SSB will be compared to a standard group HIV education session
(HE).

This study uses a 2-group, randomized, parallel-group design to compare a five-session safer
sexual skills building group to a single 60-min HIV education session (control condition).
The control condition is designed to standardize and simulate the usual care at community
clinics.

Adult females (18 years of age or older) in drug abuse treatment at participating
Community Treatment Programs are invited to participate.

We found this trial at

sites

Prestera Center for Mental Health Svcs.

Huntington, West Virginia 25704

from

Huntington, WV