Healthy Teen Girls: HIV Risk Reduction

Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2

Conditions studied: HIV-infection/Aids

In brief

This project assesses the efficacy of an HIV prevention program with adolescent females incarcerated in the Mississippi training school for girls. Participants in both the health education control group and the HIV prevention group will increase health knowledge as a result of their participation in the health classes while incarcerated. However, participants in the HIV prevention group will increase their condom application, assertiveness, and communication skills relative to girls in the health education only group. In addition, after release from the training school, participants in the HIV prevention group will report lower sexual risk behaviors and will have lower rates of infection with chlamydia and gonorrhea during the 12-month follow-up period than participants in the health education only group.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00787696

Run by

Mississippi State University

People needed

333

Starts

2003-09-01

Expected to finish

2009-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-10-20

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Female, ages 13 to 17 years, committed to Columbia Training School, who provide written informed assent.

You may not qualify if…

• Acute or chronic physically illness that would preclude participation as determined by facility physician; placement in maximum security unit; study participation during a prior commitment

Where it is running

• Columbia Training School — Columbia, Mississippi, United States

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