Open AccessThe economic impact of Project MARS (Motivating Adolescents to Reduce Sexual Risk).
Author(s) -
Bern Caudill Dealy,
Brady P. Horn,
PheKnowLator Ecosystem Developers,
Angela D. Bryan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.548
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1930-7810
pISSN - 0278-6133
DOI - 10.1037/a0033607
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , mars exploration program , contingent valuation , gonorrhea , medicine , willingness to pay , intervention (counseling) , reproductive health , randomized controlled trial , cost–benefit analysis , cost effectiveness , environmental health , psychology , population , family medicine , psychiatry , economics , political science , risk analysis (engineering) , physics , surgery , astronomy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , law , microeconomics
The purpose of this study was to economically evaluate Project MARS (Motivating Adolescents to Reduce Sexual Risk; T. J. Callahan, E. A. Montanaro, R. E. Magnan, & A. D. Bryan, 2013, "Project MARS: Design of a multi-behavior intervention trial for justice-involved youth," Translational Behavioral Medicine, Vol. 3, pp. 122-130), an ongoing, randomized, sexual-risk-reduction intervention for justice-involved youth. We consider the effect of including viral STIs in the economic analysis, and explore the impact of the MARS intervention on the perceived cost of acquiring STIs to justice-involved youth.