HIV PREVENTION & LIFE OPTIONS FOR YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE

艾滋病毒预防

• 批准号: 2857486
• 负责人: WENDY F AUSLANDER
• 金额: $ 63.94万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-01 至 2001-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2857486
• 关键词: AIDS education /prevention; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child foster care /adoption; human subject; sex behavior; social behavior

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the Abstract): In this study the researchers will develop and evaluate an HIV-prevention plus educational planning program for abused and neglected youths in foster care, which will be implemented through the Independent Living Program (ILP), a skills-building program that provides life skills to youths before they are discharged from state custody. Previous research indicates that educational parameters such as relationships with teachers, skipping school, grades, and educational aspirations are predictive of HIV-risk knowledge, attitudes, behavioral intentions, and behaviors. Although brief cognitive-behavioral interventions appear to be promising in the short term, long-term follow-up indicates that outcomes achieved do not last in this high risk adolescent population. An integral part of HIV-prevention with abused and neglected youth should involve providing youths with opportunities, skills, and hope for their futures. This can be achieved by implementing a life skills program that integrates HIV-prevention with a life-options building intervention that emphasizes educational aspirations and planning. An experimental design will be used and 430 youths will be assigned randomly either to an HIV-Prevention Plus Life Options condition or to the usual care condition. Both conditions will be delivered over an 8-month intervention phase. Evaluation of the program will be performed using data assessed during pre-, post-, and 9-month follow-up interviews. The primary outcome will be HIV-risk behaviors. Secondary outcomes include: knowledge and attitudes about HIV prevention, self-efficacy, intentions to engage in HIV-risk behaviors, future aspirations and beliefs about savings, and educational plans. A major strength of this study is that the program will be delivered through the ILP, a well-established, state-administered program in the community. ILP will provide: (1) access to high-risk abused and neglected youths; (2) the involvement of committed staff delivering a program whose philosophy is consistent with that of the study; and (3) the potential to disseminate the curriculum developed for the proposed study to ILP programs both statewide (in the seven regions of Missouri's Department of Social Services) and nationwide.

描述（改编自摘要）：在这项研究中，研究人员将 制定和评估艾滋病毒预防加教育规划方案， 被虐待和被忽视的青少年寄养，这将实施 通过独立生活计划（ILP），一个技能培养计划， 在年轻人离开国家之前为他们提供生活技能 拘留了 以前的研究表明，教育参数，如 与老师的关系，逃学，成绩，和教育 愿望是预测艾滋病毒风险的知识，态度，行为 意图和行为。 虽然短暂的认知行为 干预措施似乎是有希望的，在短期内，长期随访， 表明在这一高危青少年中取得的成果并不持久 人口 预防艾滋病毒的一个组成部分， 青年应该为青年提供机会、技能和希望 为了他们的未来 这可以通过实施生活技能来实现 将艾滋病毒预防与生活选择建筑相结合的计划 强调教育愿望和规划的干预。 本研究采用实验设计，随机抽取430名青少年， 无论是艾滋病毒预防加生活选择条件或常规护理 条件 这两种情况都将在8个月的干预中提供 相位 将使用评估的数据对该计划进行评估 在前，后，和9个月的后续采访。 主要结局 是艾滋病高危行为。 次要结果包括：知识和 对艾滋病预防的态度，自我效能，参与的意图 艾滋病毒风险行为，未来的愿望和储蓄信念，以及 教育计划。 这项研究的一个主要优点是，该计划将 通过ILP，一个完善的，国家管理的计划提供 在社区 ILP将提供：（1）获得高风险的虐待和 （2）被忽视的年轻人;（3）致力于提供一个 项目的理念与研究的理念一致;以及（3） 传播为拟议研究编制的课程的潜力， ILP计划在全州范围内（密苏里州的七个地区） 社会服务）和全国。