Review: HIV risk reduction interventions reduce some HIV risk behaviours in adolescents
Q Do HIV risk reduction interventions reduce adolescent risk behaviours for HIV?
METHODS
Data sources:
AIDSLINE, CINAHL, Dissertations Abstracts Online, ERIC, Medline, and PsycINFO up to December 2000; hand searches of conference proceedings and recent issues of relevant journals; bibliographies of identified studies; and individual researchers.
Study selection and assessment:
randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies with rigorous controls that evaluated intensive educational, psychosocial, or behavioural interventions advocating sexual risk reduction for HIV prevention for pre-college adolescents and included behavioural measures relevant to sexual risk and sufficient information to calculate effect sizes.
Outcomes:
communication about sexual risk, condom use skills, negotiating skills regarding condom use, condom use, sexual frequency, acquisition …
