Open AccessBehavioral outcomes of AIDS educational interventions for drug users in short-term treatment.
Author(s) -
Jane McCusker,
Anne M. Stoddard,
Jane G. Zapka,
Benjamin F. Lewis
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.10.1463
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , medicine , logistic regression , drug , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , family medicine
This paper reports the behavioral outcomes of informational vs enhanced small-group educational interventions for drug users among 407 subjects in a short-term drug treatment program. Logistic regression was used to analyze drug use and sexual behaviors at the final follow-up visit. Among lower risk subjects, the enhanced intervention was more effective in reducing injection practices that produced risks in terms of human immunodeficiency virus infection; among those at highest risk, the informational interventions were more effective. The enhanced intervention was more effective than the informational interventions in reducing cocaine use at follow-up. No differential intervention effect on sexual risk behaviors was found.