Brief Intervention for Rural Women at High Risk for HIV/HCV

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus, Hepatitis C, Drug Abuse

In brief

The overall aim of this study is to reduce risk behaviors and increase health and behavioral health service utilization among disadvantaged, drug-using rural women at high risk for HIV and HCV. This project has potential to make a significant contribution to science by providing knowledge about the health, risk behaviors, and service utilization of a vulnerable and understudied group of women during a time of emerging and significant public health risk in a rural Appalachian setting. Successful completion of the aims of this project will advance the delivery of a low-cost, potentially high impact intervention with implications for a number of other real world settings (such as criminal justice venues) where other disadvantaged high-risk drug users can be identified and targeted for intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01840722

Run by

Michele Staton

People needed

400

Starts

2012-12-01

Expected to finish

2019-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ASSIST score of 4+
• engagement in at least one sex risk behavior in the past 3 months
• willingness to participate in brief intervention sessions
• no evidence of cognitive impairment
• no evidence of active psychosis (currently experiencing hallucinations)
• no self-reported current symptoms of physical withdrawal from a recent episode of drug use
• incarceration period of 1 week - 3 months in order to complete intervention sessions

You may not qualify if…

• ASSIST score of <4
• no engagement in at least one sex risk behavior in the past 3 months
• not willing to participate in brief intervention sessions
• evidence of cognitive impairment
• evidence of active psychosis (currently experiencing hallucinations)
• self-reported current symptoms of physical withdrawal from a recent episode of drug use
• incarceration period of less than 1 week or greater than 3 months in order to complete intervention sessions

Where it is running

• Rural Appalachian Research Center — Hazard, Kentucky, United States

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