An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: HIV Infections

In brief

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug behavior initiated during this developmental period. Adolescents in the juvenile justice system are at increased risk for HIV due to higher rates of substance use and psychopathology than their non-offending peers. Juvenile justice youth may therefore also be less likely to benefit from frequently used skills based interventions. It appears that emotional lability, frequently found in this population, disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate an affect management HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in a juvenile drug court program. Affect management and general health promotion interventions will be compared to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents in the drug court.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00748800

Run by

Rhode Island Hospital

People needed

95

Starts

2004-09-01

Expected to finish

2007-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-02-06

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adolescents enrolled in the juvenile drug court program

You may not qualify if…

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

Where it is running

• Rhode Island Hospital — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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