Cocaine abuse counseling as HIV prevention  

Oleh:

Ling, Walter ; Rawson, Richard A. ; Shoptaw, Steve ; Frosch, Dominick L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Aids Education and Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 09 no. 06 (Dec. 1997), page 511-520.
Topik: AIDS; HIV

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: A94 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The current study evaluated the efficacy of cocaine abuse counseling alone as a strategy to reduce HIV-related sexual risk behaviors. Participants were 232 cocaine-abusing or dependent individuals who received up to 26 weeks of Matrix counseling but no formal HIVprevention interventionsThe primary method for reducing sexual risk involved overall d~crease5 in reported numbers of partners (partners-baseline = 5.32, SD = 6.25; Partners6 Months = 2.47, SD = 2.62; F(l, 132) = 36.32, P < .001) among this group of mostly heterosexual (89.9%), Caucasian (69.0%), crack cocaine users (65.6%). We concluded that cocaine abuse counseling is a powerful intervention for reducing HIV -related sexual behaviors in this group at high risk for exposure to HIV. Study findings suggested that efforts to evaluate HIV prevention programs mast also account for the effect of drug counseling.

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