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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to implement and assess a behavioral and structural intervention in Russia designed to support and motivate HIV-infected narcology heroin dependent patients (i.e., IDUs) to engage (i.e., initiate and retain) in HIV medical care and ultimately improve their HIV outcomes. The central hypothesis is that an intervention that involves coordination between the narcology and HIV systems via HIV case management delivered by a peer to help motivate and reduce barriers to HIV care will lead to engagement in HIV care.
This study is an intervention pilot that integrates the current methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) program in China with psychosocial and behavioral components in order to address the critical link between drug use and HIV/AIDS. The intervention pilot proceeds in two phases in Sichuan, China. In Phase 1, we developed the intervention manuals and supporting materials, and finalized assessment measures and implementation procedures. In Phase 2, we conducted an intervention pilot across 6 MMT clinics involving 41 service providers and 179 clients, and followed up at three, six, and nine months.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a brief intervention in video format, that includes education about reactions to assault and modeling of adaptive coping strategies, designed to reduce post assault drug use or abuse and PTSD and shown to recent victims of sexual assault at the time of receipt of post assault medical care is associated with better post-assault outcomes as compared to a comparable length video that includes pleasant imagery and relaxation instruction or standard care.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a brief intervention delivered to emergency department patients increases the uptake of rapid HIV and hepatitis C testing in comparison to no brief intervention.
The goal of this study is to examine how social networks, neighborhood, and depression are related to HIV risk. The intervention is designed to train individuals to cope with feelings of depression or stress as a way to reduce their risk for HIV.
The objective of the proposed project is to develop a novel, behavioral approach to smoking cessation that can be integrated with residential drug use treatment for low income substance using smokers with elevated depressive symptoms. The approach utilizes behavioral activation strategies which have been shown to reduce smoking among community samples and which can be easily targeted for the particular needs of low income substance users.
This study is a young adult follow-up of 166 females who originally participated in an RCT during adolescence due to their involvement in the juvenile justice system.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether drug-dependent adults who participate in a dual processing relapse prevention treatment protocol that allows for sensory-based exposure experiences over 10-weeks in outpatient treatment will show significant brain change related to diminished cue reactivity, and greater improvement in self-efficacy, anxiety, somatization, and treatment retention, as compared to the standard care patients in a relapse prevention program.
In the study, homeless youth from a drop-in site and faculty from UCLA and California Institute of the Arts will develop, pilot test and evaluate a youth-based drug and health-promoting program. It is hoped that this program will help in the development of a program that can be further tested in a larger study and lead to the development of an innovative and effective drug counseling program that youth situated in homeless sites will utilize.
This application is a competing continuation of a grant in which we developed and pilot tested a computerized Therapeutic Workplace designed to train and employ adults as data entry operators. A randomized trial is planned over 5 years to investigate the Therapeutic Workplace business as a maintenance intervention to sustain long-term abstinence and employment. Welfare recipients in methadone treatment, actively using cocaine, and at risk for contracting or spreading HIV infection will participate in an initial Therapeutic Workplace training phase. Participants who become abstinent and skilled will be randomly assigned to an Abstinence & Employment, or an Employment Only group. Participants in the Abstinence & Employment group will be employed for one year in a Therapeutic Workplace business and will have to provide drug-free urine samples to work and earn salary. Employment Only participants will be offered employment for one year, but these participants will not have to provide drug-free urine samples to work. This study will provide a rigorous evaluation of the efficacy of the Therapeutic Workplace business as a long-term treatment of cocaine addiction and unemployment; determine the benefits of requiring daily evidence of abstinence to work; and provide information on the extent to which a Therapeutic Workplace business can become self-sustaining. This research could provide firm scientific foundation for the dissemination of Therapeutic Workplace businesses in the long-term treatment of cocaine addiction and unemployment. The main hypothesis being tested is that cocaine abstinence will be reliably maintained during the yearlong intervention evaluation period only in the group exposed to the explicit abstinence maintenance intervention. We expect that cocaine abstinence in the Abstinence and Employment group will be significantly greater than cocaine abstinence in the Employment Only group.