Open AccessChanges in externalizing and internalizing symptoms among African American female adolescents over 1 year following a mother–daughter sexual health intervention.
Author(s) -
Ashley D. Kendall,
Christina B. Young,
Bethany C. Bray,
Erin Emerson,
Sally Freels,
Geri R. Donenberg
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.582
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1939-2117
pISSN - 0022-006X
DOI - 10.1037/ccp0000491
Subject(s) - psychology , mental health , intervention (counseling) , externalization , clinical psychology , daughter , psychiatry , medicine , evolutionary biology , psychoanalysis , biology
African American female adolescents face disparities compared with White peers in the interrelated areas of mental health symptoms and sexually transmitted infection (STI) acquisition. IMARA (Informed, Motivated, Aware and Responsible about AIDS) is a group-based mother-daughter intervention addressing these factors among African American teenagers. Previous work demonstrated that female adolescents who received IMARA were 43% less likely than controls to evidence a new STI at 1 year. This report aimed to provide the 1st test of IMARA on externalizing and internalizing symptoms and an exploratory analysis of whether symptom improvements were associated with the protective effect of treatment against future STIs.