The Role of Affect Management for HIV Risk Reduction for Youth in Alternative Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescents in alternative schools for behavioral and emotional problems have an earlier sexual onset and higher rates of sexual risk than their peers. They also often have difficulty managing strong emotions, which can impair sexual decision making. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention programs for these adolescents may be most effective if skills for coping with strong emotions during sexual situations are included.

Method

This article reports the 6-month outcomes of a three-arm randomized controlled trial comparing an HIV prevention intervention with affect management (AM) to a standard, skills-based HIV prevention intervention (SB), and a general health promotion intervention (HP). HP was similar to a general health class, and SB was based on previous

SUBMITTER: Brown LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465640 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature