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Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
The goal of the Teen Health Project (THP) is to provide adolescents living in low-income housing developments with the skills necessary to prevent HIV risk behaviors. First, adolescents attend two 3-hour workshops that focus on teaching sexual negotiation, proper condom use, HIV/STD education, and ways to avoid unwanted sex. Next, adolescents attend two follow-up sessions as well as various community activities and events with peers from their housing developments.
In addition, a Teen Health Project Leadership Council is established in each housing development to encourage continued participation in various program events and to support the establishment of HIV prevention behaviors as norms. Finally, parents of adolescent participants are offered a workshop that teaches them about HIV/AIDS and way to discuss issues related to abstinence and condom use with their children.
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| Goal / Mission |
The goal of the Teen Health Project is to provide adolescents with the skills necessary to prevent HIV risk behaviors. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Two months post-intervention, adolescents who participated in the Teen Health Project were significantly more likely to have remained abstinent than adolescents who only received AIDS education (p=0.04). Also at two months post-intervention, sexually active adolescents who had participated in the intervention were significantly more likely to report condom use at last sex when compared to their counterparts in the control condition (p=0.05). |
| Categories |
Health / Teen & Adolescent Health
Health / Prevention & Safety
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| Source |
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Date of Publication |
2005 |
| Date of Implementation |
1998 |
| Geographic Type |
Urban |
| Location |
City: cities in Wisconsin, Virginia, and Washington |
| Primary Contact |
Kathleen J. Sikkema
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
9 Flowers Drive, Box 90086
Durham, NC 27708
(919) 684-9073
kathleen.sikkema@duke.edu
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/research/prs/reso...
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| For more details |
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/003...
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| Target Audience |
Teens, low-income |
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