The dynamic relationship between social norms and behaviors: the results of an HIV prevention network intervention for injection drug users.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Social norms are a key source of influence on health behaviors. This study examined changes in social norms and relationships between HIV injection risk behaviors and social norms among injection drug users (IDUs) involved in an experimental intervention.

Design

Randomized clinical trial.

Setting

An HIV Prevention Trials Network study, Philadelphia, USA.

Participants

IDUs, called indexes, and their social network members, who were drug or sex partners, were recruited for an HIV prevention intervention and followed for up to 30 months (n = 652). Indexes were randomized into a peer education intervention or control condition.

Measurements

Outcomes of injection-related HIV risk behaviors (sharing needles, sharing cookers, sharing cotton, front-/back-lo

SUBMITTER: Latkin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3628934 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature