Efficacy of a group-based multimedia HIV prevention intervention for drug-involved women under community supervision: project WORTH.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

This study is designed to address the need for evidence-based HIV/STI prevention approaches for drug-involved women under criminal justice community supervision.

Objective

We tested the efficacy of a group-based traditional and multimedia HIV/STI prevention intervention (Project WORTH: Women on the Road to Health) among drug-involved women under community supervision.

Design, setting, participants, and intervention

We randomized 306 women recruited from community supervision settings to receive either: (1) a four-session traditional group-based HIV/STI prevention intervention (traditional WORTH); (2) a four-session multimedia group-based HIV/STI prevention intervention that covered the same content as traditional WORTH but was delivered in a computerized fo

SUBMITTER: El-Bassel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4221040 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature