An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders

HIV Infections Clinical Trial

Official title:

An Affect Management Intervention for Juvenile Offenders

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00748800
• Other study ID #: R21DA019245
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: September 5, 2008
• Last updated: February 5, 2009
• Start date: September 2004
• Est. completion date: October 2007

Study information

• Verified date: February 2009
• Source: Rhode Island Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Adolescents are at risk for HIV because of sexual and drug behavior initiated during this developmental period. Adolescents in the juvenile justice system are at increased risk for HIV due to higher rates of substance use and psychopathology than their non-offending peers. Juvenile justice youth may therefore also be less likely to benefit from frequently used skills based interventions. It appears that emotional lability, frequently found in this population, disrupts skills learned. This project will implement and evaluate an affect management HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in a juvenile drug court program. Affect management and general health promotion interventions will be compared to determine which intervention best reduces risk behavior among adolescents in the drug court.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 95
• Est. completion date: October 2007
• Est. primary completion date: May 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 13 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescents enrolled in the juvenile drug court program

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent is HIV positive

• Adolescent is pregnant

• Adolescent is developmentally delayed

• Adolescent has history of sexual crime

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV Infections

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Affect Management
5 session group intervention that focused on teaching affect management skills and included HIV prevention and sexual health training
• General Health Promotion
5 session group focused on delivering general health promotion information in didactic format

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Rhode Island Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Rhode Island Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Adolescent-reported sexual activity and condom use		3 month post-intervention	No
Secondary	Adolescent substance use (self-report and urine toxicology screen results)		3 months post-intervention	No