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Developing a Dyadic Intervention for Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)/HIV Prevention in Youth

CompletedNA

Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Conditions: Exposure to Sexually Transmissible Disorder (Event)

Interventions: Intervention, Individual evidence-based STI/HIV prevention intervention

Countries: United States

This pilot project will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a couples-based behavioral intervention \[COUPLES\] that augments individual evidence-based interventions with joint health education counseling for STI-affected AYA dyads within a primary care setting.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 16 Years to 30 Years

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

The index patient must be

* 16-25 years
* Engage in male-female \[heterosexual\] intercourse
* Permanently reside in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area (GBMA)
* Willing to recruit their main sexual partner for the study
* Willing to participate in a single individual session with a health educator followed by a joint debriefing session together
* Willing to be contacted in 6-8 weeks for a telephone interview

The partner must be

* 16-30 years
* Engage in male-female \[heterosexual\] intercourse with the index patient
* Permanently reside in the greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area
* Willing to participate in a single individual session with a health educator followed by a joint debriefing session together
* Willing to be contacted in 6-8 weeks for a telephone interview

Exclusion Criteria:

* Index participants and partners who are unable to communicate with staff or participate in study procedures due to cognitive, mental, or language difficulties will not be eligible for recruitment into the study.
* Dyads will also be excluded if in same-sex main partnership or a member of the couple is currently enrolled in another sexual behavior study, one or both partners has a known concurrent HIV infection, one or more partners has a pending incarceration, there is more than five years age difference between the two partners and one partner is \<16 years of age, or there is evidence of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the relationship.
* Individuals who screen positive for IPV will be referred to local resources for assistance.

Locations (1)

Baltimore, Maryland, United States