REDUCING RELAPSE AND THE SPREAD OF AIDS IN IV DRUG USERS

减少静脉吸毒者的艾滋病复发和传播

• 批准号: 3211670
• 负责人: ROBERT F SCHILLING
• 金额: $ 79.14万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-30 至 1993-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3211670
• 关键词: AIDS; AIDS education /prevention; African American; Hispanic Americans; behavioral medicine; communicable disease control; communicable disease transmission; disease /disorder proneness /risk; drug abuse education; drug abuse therapy; education evaluation /planning; human subject; intravenous drug abuse; longitudinal human study; methadone; sex behavior

Intravenous drug users are the second largest group of persons infected with HIV. By virtue of their high rates of infection, continued sharing of drug use paraphernalia, and sexual relationships, IV drug users pose a severe threat to one another and to the population as a whole. This continuation study, which extends research supported under a two year NIDA award, focusses on ways of reducing relapse and the spread of AIDS among recovering drug users. Building on developmental research now in progress, this investigation will compare the efficacy of various means of slowing the spread of HIV among Black and Hispanic/Latino IV drug users and their associates. In a repeated measures, three condition design, the study will evaluate the processes, outcomes, and replicability of three forms of AIDS prevention groups: AIDS information, AIDS prevention skills, and AIDS/relapse prevention. The final phase of the project will assess the feasibility, transferability, and efficacy of a skills-building intervention, developed in the course of the field experiment, and disseminated in self-instructional packages designed for community methadone programs. Concurrent with these activities, the investigators will continue to follow subjects from the earlier study: methadone patients who participated in a survey of attitudes and behavior related to AIDS risks, and a second group of patients who participated in a pilot intervention. By testing these intervention methods and following descriptive and experimental samples from earlier research, the study will assess the extent to which skills-building interventions can effect changes in behavior and attitudes related to AIDS risks, and enhance understanding of how drug users appraise the AIDS crisis.

静脉吸毒者是被感染的第二大群体 与艾滋病毒。由于其高感染率，继续共享 药物使用用具和性关系，IV吸毒者构成 对彼此和整个人口的严重威胁。这 继续研究，该研究扩展了两年NIDA支持的研究 奖励，重点关注减少复发的方式和艾滋病的传播 恢复吸毒者。在正在进行的发展研究的基础上， 这项调查将比较各种减慢手段的功效 艾滋病毒在黑人和西班牙裔/拉丁美洲人IV吸毒者及其中的传播 同事。在重复的措施中，三种条件设计，研究将 评估三种艾滋病形式的过程，结果和可复制性 预防小组：援助信息，艾滋病预防技能和 艾滋病/预防复发。该项目的最后阶段将评估 技能建设的可行性，可转移性和功效 干预措施，在现场实验过程中开发，以及 在为社区设计的自我教学套餐中传播 美沙酮计划。与这些活动同时进行，调查人员 将继续遵循早期研究的受试者：美沙酮患者 参加了与艾滋病有关的态度和行为的调查 风险和第二组参加飞行员的患者 干涉。通过测试这些干预方法并遵循 来自早期研究的描述性和实验样本，该研究将 评估技能建设干预措施的程度 在与艾滋病风险有关的行为和态度上，并增强理解 吸毒者如何评估艾滋病危机。