A quasi-experimental evaluation of an HIV prevention programme by peer education in the Anglican Church of the Western Cape, South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Religion is important in most African communities, but faith-based HIV prevention programmes are infrequent and very rarely evaluated.

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a church-based peer education HIV prevention programme that focused on youth.

Design

A quasi-experimental study design compared non-randomly chosen intervention and control groups.

Setting

This study was conducted in the Cape Town Diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Participants

The intervention group of 176 teenagers was selected from youth groups at 14 churches and the control group of 92 from youth groups at 17 churches. Intervention and control churches were chosen to be as similar as possible to decrease confounding.

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SUBMITTER: Mash R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3329606 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature