HIV Prevention With the Mentally Ill

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: HIV Infections

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether motivational interviewing and skills building interventions reduce HIV risk behavior for adults with serious and persistent mental illness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00643305

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

53

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2009-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-03

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 19 and older
• Able to provide consent
• Able to understand and speak English
• Willing and able to participate
• Suffer from a serious and persistent mental illness (SMI)
• Have had at least one HIV risk behavior (unprotected sexual activity, sharing injection drug needles without following Center for Disease Control guidelines for needle-cleaning, sexual activity while under the influence of drugs or alcohol) during the three-month period prior to the baseline evaluation

You may not qualify if…

• Do not suffer from a serious mental illness
• Have not engaged in an HIV risk behavior during the three-month period prior to the baseline evaluation.
• Unable to provide consent
• Unable to understand and speak English
• Under the age of 19

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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