HIV Prevention for STD Clinic Patients

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究的广泛、长期目标是降低艾滋病毒引起的发病率和死亡率。具体目标是为在性传播疾病诊所寻求治疗的患者制定和评估降低风险的干预措施。这项研究将分为两个阶段。首先，将对100名性病门诊患者进行形成性研究，以阐明贫困城市环境中风险行为（和风险降低）的决定因素。获得的信息将与行为科学理论相结合，以开发可通过数字视频光盘（DVD）传播的性风险降低干预措施。预计这些dvd将向患者提供有关艾滋病毒/性传播疾病的信息，激发患者避免风险的动机，提高减少风险所必需的内部和人际交往能力，并提供详细的疾病预防策略。dvd将采用激励风格，根据性别和性取向量身定制，并采用戏剧性和说教成分，以优化个人相关性。其次，将对1000名性病门诊患者进行随机对照试验，以：(a)评估dvd的有效性，(b)将dvd的效果与详细的性行为评估的效果分开。通过交叉评估内容（详细性行为vs.一般健康行为）和干预焦点（性风险降低vs.一般健康促进）形成的四种情况，患者将被随机分配到其中一种。在患者完成基线评估后，他们将接受基于dvd的干预和标准的临床护理。在3、6、9和12个月时，他们将提供性行为自我报告和性病检测样本。分析将测试观看性健康DVD的患者是否比观看一般健康促进DVD的患者更能减少风险行为和更少的新性病。还将进行分析，以增加对干预措施反应的个体差异的了解。总的来说，拟议的研究将确定通过DVD传递的风险降低信息是否可以减少性风险行为和性传播疾病的发生。如果发现有效，这种dvd可以为全国的性病诊所提供一个高度可行、易于传播的降低风险计划。此外，该研究还将调查在性风险降低研究中常见的详细的基线性行为评估是否真的能促进性行为的改变。澄清研究评估的效果对于解释干预文献和指导公共卫生实践至关重要。最后，通过识别没有从这些干预措施中受益的患者，本研究可以为无反应者的干预改进提供方向。这项研究将促进在性病诊所使用的实用和有效的性风险降低干预措施的发展，从而减少由艾滋病毒和其他性病引起的疾病负担。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The broad, long-term objective of this research is to reduce the morbidity and mortality caused by HIV. The specific aims are to develop and evaluate a risk reduction intervention for patients seeking care at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics. This research will have two phases. First, formative research will be conducted with 100 STD clinic patients to clarify the determinants of risk behavior (and risk reduction) in impoverished urban environments. Information obtained will be integrated with behavioral science theory to develop sexual risk reduction interventions that can be delivered by digital video disc (DVD). It is expected that the DVDs will provide patients with information about HIV/STDS, activate patients' motivation to avoid risk, enhance the intra- and interpersonal skills essential for risk reduction, and provide detailed disease prevention strategies. The DVDs will employ a motivational style, be tailored by sex and sexual orientation, and employ dramatic as well as didactic components in order to optimize personal relevance. Second, a randomized controlled trial with 1000 STD clinic patients will be conducted to: (a) evaluate the effectiveness of the DVDs, and (b) separate the effects of the DVDs from the effects of detailed sexual behavior assessments. Patients will be randomized to one of four conditions formed by crossing assessment content (detailed sexual behavior vs. general health behavior) with intervention foci (sexual risk reduction vs. general health promotion). After patients complete a baseline assessment, they will receive a DVD-based intervention and standard clinical care. At 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, they will provide sexual behavior self-reports and specimens for STD testing. Analyses will test whether patients who view the sexual health DVD reduce risk behavior more and have fewer new STDs compared to patients who view a general health promotion DVD. Analyses will also be conducted to increase understanding of individual differences in response to the interventions. Overall, the proposed research will determine whether risk reduction messages delivered by DVD can reduce sexual risk behavior and incident STDs. If found effective, such DVDs can provide a highly feasible, easily disseminated risk reduction program for STD clinics nationwide. In addition, the research will investigate whether the detailed baseline sexual behavior assessments that are common to sexual risk reduction research actually promote sexual behavior change. Clarifying the effects of research assessments is essential to interpreting the intervention literature, and guiding public health practice. Finally, by identifying patients who do not benefit from these interventions, this research can suggest directions for intervention refinement for non-responders. This research will advance the development of practical and effective sexual risk reduction interventions for use in STD clinics, and thereby reduce the burden of disease caused by HIV and other STDs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed research will help patients at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics to reduce their risk for HIV and other STDs. The initial phase of research will involve developing a HIV risk reduction intervention that can be administered with a digital video disc (DVD). After developing the DVD, a randomized controlled research study will be conducted with 1000 patients to determine if the DVD-administered intervention helps patients to reduce sexual risk behavior and prevent new STDs. This study will lead to the development of a practical, effective, and easily-distributed sexual risk reduction intervention for use in public STD clinics.