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Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
The goal of Partnership for Health is to use regular doctor visits as a forum to reach HIV-positive patients and increase their knowledge, skills, and motivations to practice safer sex. The program accomplishes these goals by using message framing, repetition, and reinforcement.
Partnership for Health is delivered by providers to HIV-positive patients in HIV outpatient clinics. Waiting room posters and brochures are used to reinforce the program's main message of prevention. The actual program is implemented as a 3- to 5- minute conversation between the patient and provider during a routine visit, during which time the provider discusses protection, partner protection, and disclosure of HIV serostatus.
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| Goal / Mission |
The goal of Partnership for Health is to reach HIV positive patients during regular doctor visits and increase their knowledge, skills, and motivations to practice safer sex. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Six HIV clinics in California implemented the intervention. Two clinics used a loss-framed approach (negative consequences of unsafe sex), two used a gain-framed approach (positive consequences of safer sex), and two served as controls. The authors found that patients who had received the loss-framed messages and who had two or more sex partners at baseline were significantly less likely to report having unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse at follow-up (p<0.01) when compared to the other two groups. |
| Categories |
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Health / Prevention & Safety
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| Source |
Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) |
| Date of Publication |
2004 |
| Date of Implementation |
1999 |
| Location |
State: California |
| Primary Contact |
Jean Richardson
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine - USC
1441 Eastlake Ave, MS 9175
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 865-0385
jeanr@usc.edu
http://www.effectiveinterventions.org/en/HighIm...
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| For more details |
http://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Abstract/200...
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| Target Audience |
HIV-positive individuals |
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