HIV/STI Prevention for Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders in Treatment

Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2

Conditions studied: HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

In brief

Adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD) are at substantial risk for contracting HIV/STIs compared to their counterparts without SUD, yet few HIV/STI sexual risk reduction interventions have been developed to meet their unique needs, and none use a family-based intervention approach, which the literature recommends as the focus for intervention for youth. Current state policies neither require providers in clinics delivering substance use treatment to offer HIV/STI sexual risk reduction nor offer providers tools or training for HIV/STI prevention. There is clear public health need to develop innovative methods of service delivery and effective strategies of HIV/STI sexual risk reduction that address multiple contexts of risk (i.e. family) for this high risk population. The current proposal addresses this need by developing a provider-delivered HIV sexual risk reduction intervention to be implemented in outpatient SUD treatment that: 1) builds the clinics' capacity to help families under their care to more comfortably address the adolescent's sexuality; 2) promotes youth's safer sex practices; and 3) reduces HIV/STI sexual risk behaviors among adolescents with SUD in care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01383837

Run by

New York State Psychiatric Institute

People needed

86

Starts

2010-08-01

Expected to finish

2015-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-28

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 24. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• are in care at the pilot sites;
• are ages 13-24 years;
• meet criteria for (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) DSM-IV substance abuse diagnosis (patient record);
• have a caregiver who will consent to their study participation,
• have a parent/family member willing to enter treatment and participate in study

You may not qualify if…

• have mental retardation or pervasive developmental disorder as primary diagnosis;
• have a medical or psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization;
• have current psychotic features, or current suicidality;
• are not English- or Spanish-speaking

Where it is running

• St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital — New York, New York, United States

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