Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk: An Intervention

Drug Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk: An Intervention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00914719
• Other study ID #: R01AA013844-01
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 2002
• Est. completion date: September 2002

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University of New Mexico
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Adolescents are at great risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (CDC, 2000a; DiLorenzo & Whaley, 1999). Though the CDC (2000b) reports that overall AIDS incidence is on the decline, there has been no comparable decline in the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among young people aged 13-19, and young people of color are particularly at risk. Compared to the general adolescent population, adolescents involved with the criminal justice system are younger at first intercourse, have a greater number of sex partners, and lower rates of condom use, resulting in higher rates of unintended pregnancy and STDs (e.g., St. Lawrence et al., 1999). Alcohol use is commonly cited as a reason for lack of condom use among high-risk adolescents such as those involved in the criminal justice system (e.g., Morris et al., 1998) and recent data from our research suggests that it is heavy alcohol use in concert with sexual activity that is most strongly related to lack of condom use (Bryan, Rocheleau, & Robbins, 2002a). The goal of this research is to design, implement, evaluation, and disseminate a successful HIV/STD risk reduction intervention that is theory-based, empirically targeted to adolescents, and articulated to a criminal justice setting. The study compares a sexual risk reduction intervention with a group motivational interviewing alcohol component to a standard sexual risk reduction intervention and a no treatment control condition. The investigators hope to show that: 1) A three-hour one-time intervention has the capacity to reduce sexual risk behavior up to one year post-release among high risk adolescents in detention, 2) A combined sexual and alcohol risk reduction intervention will result in larger decreases in sexual risk behavior than a sexual risk reduction alone, 3) The interventions will exert their effects through changes in mediators derived from a theoretically-based model of condom use intentions and behaviors, and 4) A sexual risk reduction intervention including an alcohol component will be especially effective for those adolescents with higher levels of existing alcohol problems. Finally, given proven efficacy, the intervention curricula and materials will be disseminated for use in adolescent detention facilities throughout the state.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: September 2002
• Est. primary completion date: September 2002
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All young people between the ages of 14 and 17 who were in the detention centers at which recruitment took place.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 14 or non-English speaking

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcohol Use
• Drug Use
• Sexual Risk Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Information only

• Sexual risk reduction intervention

• sexual risk reduction + alcohol risk reduction component

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Colorado	Boulder	Colorado

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of New Mexico

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Bryan A, Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR. Mediational analysis in HIV/AIDS research: estimating multivariate path analytic models in a structural equation modeling framework. AIDS Behav. 2007 May;11(3):365-83. doi: 10.1007/s10461-006-9150-2. — View Citation

Schmiege SJ, Broaddus MR, Levin M, Bryan AD. Randomized trial of group interventions to reduce HIV/STD risk and change theoretical mediators among detained adolescents. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2009 Feb;77(1):38-50. doi: 10.1037/a0014513. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Condom use		one year
Secondary	alcohol use		one year