Faith-Based HIV Prevention for Women

基于信仰的妇女艾滋病毒预防

• 批准号: 7938966
• 负责人: Gina Maria Wingood
• 金额: $ 38.75万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-25 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7938966
• 关键词: 1 year old; 2 year old; AIDS prevention; Address; Adoption; Affect; African American; Age-Years; Attitude; Baptist Church; Birth; Church; Coitus; Communication; Communities; Development; Epidemic; HIV; Health; Health Promotion; Health Services; Individual; Influentials; Institution; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Knowledge; Life; Link; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Missionary; Older Population; Perception; Placebo Control; Population; Population Intervention; Populations at Risk; Public Health Schools; Randomized; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Reduction; Self Efficacy; Structure; Training; Treatment Efficacy; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Woman; base; behavior change; condoms; design; eligible participant; evidence base; follow-up; forging; innovation; member; metropolitan; middle age; older men; older women; safer sex; skills; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The proposed study takes an innovative, culturally congruent approach to HIV prevention by involving one of the most influential social structures in the AA community, AA churches. The proposed study forges a link between Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. During the past year, the study team has collaborated with church lay leaders and with leaders of the church Ministries to initiate development a faith-based HIV intervention. The study investigators propose to develop a faith-based HIV intervention that is adapted from the CDC-defined evidence based SISTA HIV intervention for young AA women, 18 - 29 years of age. 1,2 Middle age and older populations now represent the fastest growing group of individuals living with HIV. Unfortunately, middle age and older women are acquiring HIV at a higher rate than middle age and older men. Moreover, among mature women, AA women are disproportionately affected by HIV. Given the absence of evidence-based HIV interventions for this population, the proposed study seeks to design a faith-based HIV intervention for AA women, 40 - 60 years of age to reduce unprotected sexual intercourse. Eligible participants will be randomized to receive either the faith-based HIV intervention (n = 240) or a placebo controlled health promotion intervention (n = 240) and assessments will be conducted at baseline, 6 and 12- month follow up to evaluate intervention efficacy. For behavior change to be meaningful it must be sustained, thus, we also propose to train members of the Women's Ministry and Health Ministry to maintain the intervention.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究采用一种创新的，文化上一致的方法来预防艾滋病毒，涉及AA社区中最有影响力的社会结构之一，AA教堂。这项提议的研究将埃默里大学罗林斯公共卫生学院与佐治亚州亚特兰大市的新生传教浸信会教堂联系起来。在过去的一年里，研究小组与教会的世俗领袖和教会事工的领导人合作，发起了一项基于信仰的艾滋病毒干预措施。研究人员建议开发一种基于信仰的艾滋病毒干预，该干预改编自cdc定义的基于证据的SISTA艾滋病毒干预，适用于18 - 29岁的年轻AA女性。1,2中年和老年人口现在是艾滋病毒感染者中增长最快的群体。不幸的是，中年和老年妇女感染艾滋病毒的比率高于中年和老年男子。此外，在成熟妇女中，嗜酒者的妇女受到艾滋病毒的影响不成比例。鉴于缺乏针对这一人群的基于证据的艾滋病毒干预措施，本研究旨在为40 - 60岁的AA妇女设计一种基于信仰的艾滋病毒干预措施，以减少无保护的性行为。符合条件的参与者将被随机分配接受基于信仰的HIV干预（n = 240）或安慰剂控制的健康促进干预（n = 240），并将在基线、6个月和12个月的随访中进行评估，以评估干预效果。要使行为改变有意义，就必须持续下去，因此，我们还建议培训妇女部和卫生部的成员，以维持干预。