Clinical trial NCT00137644: Evaluation of the Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound (PALMS) Intervention for Minority Adolescents
Official title: Evaluation of the Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound (PALMS) Innovative HIV Prevention Intervention for Minority Adolescents by the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation in Philadelphia, PA
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: HIV Infections
Keywords: Adolescent
*HIV Infections/ pc [Prevention & Control]
Male
Humans
Risk-Taking
Safe Sex
Sexual Behavior
HIV
HIV Seronegativity
Lead sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sponsor class: FED
Collaborators: name: Public Health Management Corporation
First posted: 2005-08-30
Enrollment: 264
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this program evaluation is to determine whether the Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound (PALMS) group-level intervention is effective in reducing HIV sex risk behaviors and increasing HIV testing of high-risk, incarcerated or adjudicated youth. The intent of this program is to support the evaluation of an existing intervention and provide feedback to the implementing organization for improved program effectiveness, not to conduct research.

Detailed description: Philadelphia Health Management Corporation (PHMC) is evaluating the Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound (PALMS) group-level intervention for high-risk, incarcerated or adjudicated youth. PALMS uses three theater-based sessions to increase knowledge about HIV/AIDS, increase HIV testing, and reduce risky sexual behavior through increased self-efficacy. The intervention is delivered by peers, and peers work with the intervention team to use evaluation results to improve the program. The evaluation will recruit male adolescents, aged 12 to 18 years, who are residing in juvenile justice or drug treatment facilities in Philadelphia. The evaluation design uses concurrent intervention (N=132) and comparison (N=132) groups. Data will be collected at baseline, immediate post-intervention, and at a 6-month post-intervention follow-up. The intent of this program is to support the evaluation of an existing intervention and provide feedback to the implementing organization for improved program effectiveness, not to conduct research.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Male adolescents
* Between the ages of 12 and 18
* Receiving residential services at juvenile justice or drug treatment facilities
* African-American or Latino

Exclusion Criteria:

* Do not speak English
* Prior participation in PALMS intervention
* Female adolescents

Primary outcomes:
measure: Sexual activity
timeFrame: Within past 3 months & ever
measure: Number and type (main and non-main) of female sex partners
timeFrame: Within past 3 months
measure: Frequency of condom use with female sex partners
timeFrame: Within past 3 months
measure: HIV testing (ever tested, number of tests, likelihood of test)
timeFrame: Within past 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Drug use
timeFrame: Within past 3 months
measure: Knowledge of HIV transmission, prevention and testing
timeFrame: Concurrent
measure: Attitudes and beliefs about condoms and safe sex
timeFrame: Concurrent
measure: Beliefs about HIV and HIV testing
timeFrame: Concurrent
measure: Perception of HIV risk
timeFrame: concurrent
measure: Self-efficacy to use condoms and practice safe sex
timeFrame: Concurrent
measure: Self-esteem
timeFrame: Concurrent
measure: Perceptions of cultural and peer norms
timeFrame: Concurrent
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Philadelphia Health Management Corporation
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Public Health Management Corporation
name: Jennifer Lauby, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Project Officer, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, NCHSTP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
name: Jeffrey H Herbst, PhD
affiliation: Project Officer, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, NCHSTP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
name: Thomas M Painter, PhD
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