STEP: An Alcohol and HIV Prevention Education Program

STEP：酒精和艾滋病毒预防教育计划

• 批准号: 6745299
• 负责人: ROSY CHHABRA
• 金额: $ 35.71万
• 依托单位: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-06 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6745299
• 关键词: AIDS education /prevention; India; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse education; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; attitude; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; clinical research; culture; curriculum; disease /disorder proneness /risk; education evaluation /planning; health behavior; human subject; questionnaires; socioeconomics; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the project "STEP: An Alcohol and HIV Prevention Program" is to develop a program to prevent HIV risk behaviors and alcohol abuse among adolescents in India responsive to the cultural and socioeconomic issues that place adolescents there at risk for both alcohol abuse and HIV transmission. SPECIFIC AIMS Aim 1: To develop and implement a school-based curriculum that focuses on the interrelated epidemics of alcohol and HIV. The program will be suited to the cultural and social needs of young Indian adolescents in the 9th grade. Aim 2: To identify school-level characteristics of readiness and capacity which impede or facilitate the implementation and evaluation of an alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS program. Aim 3: To assess whether and how Indian adolescent's risk-related attitudes and beliefs, knowledge of disease process, and preferred communication strategies differ according to age, gender, socioeconomic status and cultural factors. Aim 4: To determine whether our new adolescent Alcohol and HIV prevention education program increases adolescent understanding of risk factors, disease process, and psychological impact in both areas of alcohol use and HIV infection. Aim 5: To identify differences in alcohol abuse and HIV risk behavior between adolescents who receive the new program compared with students who receive the standard curriculum. In this project, our team of investigators from the U.S. and India will work together to design, implement and evaluate a manualized intervention that combines successful alcohol abuse and HIV prevention curricula. Our proposed project builds upon a school-based training model that has been developed and used in India by the STEP and DRE programs. The program will train trainers (i.e., about 50 undergraduate students in Mumbai) who in turn will teach adolescents in 100 schools (9 graders in local schools) about alcohol abuse and HIV prevention information and the adolescents will be encouraged to share this information with peers and families.

描述（由申请人提供）：“STEP：酒精和艾滋病毒预防计划”项目的目标是制定一项计划，预防印度青少年的艾滋病毒危险行为和酗酒，以应对印度青少年面临的文化和社会经济问题面临酗酒和艾滋病毒传播的风险。具体目标 目标 1：制定和实施校本课程，重点关注酒精和艾滋病毒相互关联的流行病。该计划将适合印度九年级青少年的文化和社会需求。目标 2：确定学校层面的准备情况和能力特征，这些特征阻碍或促进酒精滥用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病计划的实施和评估。目标 3：评估印度青少年的风险相关态度和信念、疾病过程知识以及首选沟通策略是否以及如何因年龄、性别、社会经济地位和文化因素而异。目标 4：确定我们新的青少年酒精和艾滋病毒预防教育计划是否可以提高青少年对酒精使用和艾滋病毒感染领域的风险因素、疾病过程和心理影响的了解。目标 5：确定接受新计划的青少年与接受标准课程的学生在酗酒和艾滋病毒危险行为方面的差异。在这个项目中，我们来自美国和印度的研究团队将共同设计、实施和评估将成功的酗酒和艾滋病毒预防课程结合起来的手动干预措施。我们提议的项目建立在印度 STEP 和 DRE 项目开发和使用的校本培训模式的基础上。该计划将培训培训师（即孟买的约 50 名本科生），培训师将向 100 所学校的青少年（当地学校的 9 名年级学生）教授有关酗酒和艾滋病毒预防的信息，并鼓励青少年与同龄人分享这些信息和家人。