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Description
The proposed study will involve the development and pilot testing of an interactive
computerized tailored intervention program for HIV/STI prevention among at-risk heterosexually
active African-American STI clinic patients, aged 18-44. The Attitude-Social-Influence Efficacy
model will serve as a conceptual foundation for the intervention and tailored feedback, which will
assess and give feedback to participants separately for main/steady and other/casual partners.
Individual modules will be developed for key theoretical concepts and subsequently tied
together into an integrated system. The tailored feedback will additionally be enhanced by
crafting intervention messages to be high in messages sensation value and by developing
interactive intervention activities for skill-building. which wiII be guided by both Social Cognitive
Theory and skills training principles. The computerized intervention will be developed and
guided using data collected from the target audience to ensure an empirically-based approach
to tailoring. The intervention will also be developed with input from the target audience in order
to maximize the appropriateness and persuasiveness of the feedback and the program,
including interactive components. The final year of the project wiII entail a pilot test of the
intervention in order to gather preliminary data on the acceptability and efficacy of such an
intervenlion for increasing safer sexual behaviors among at-risk heterosexually active African-
Americans.
The specific aims of the study are: 1) to develop tailored Feedback on HIV/STI prevention
based on the ASE model, Including condom attitudes, social influences, self-efficacy including
communication/negotiation skills, partner and behavioral risk, correct condom use, and
condom stages of change; 2) to enhance the delivery of the tailored messages using sensation-seeking
targeting (SENTAR) and skill-building using interactive activities guided by Social
Cognitive Theory (SCT) end skills training principles; 3) to tie the individual theoretical modules
together and develop a computerized intervention program for HIV/STI prevention, which
provides tailored risk reduction messages 10 participants based upon an assessment of
participent characteristics; 4) 10 develop empirically sound cutpoints, specific to the target
audience, to guide the message "tailoring; and 5) in a wait-list controI group design, to pilot test
the intervention for acceptability and efficacy in increasing condom use with main and casual
partners among at-risk heterosexually active African-Americans, relative to a "usual care"
comparison condition.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/14/08 → 5/31/11 |
Funding
- National Institute of Mental Health: $618,411.00
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