Information-motivation-behavioral skills model-based HIV risk behavior change intervention for inner-city high school youth.

Abstract

Un~ierslty ot HartfordThl\ study assesied the eftect.; of 3 theoreticall) grountled, school-based HIV prevention intcr\cntion~ on inner-cit!, minority high school students' levels of HIV pre\ention ~nfor~nxion.mot~~ation.heha\ ioral shill^, and heha\~or.11 in\ol\cd a quasi-expermental controlled trial comparing classroom-based.peer-habed.and cornb~ned classroo~n-and peer-based HIV preventloll ~uterventions with a stantlxd-ofcare control condit~on in 1 urban h~gh schools Ih' = 1,532.primar~l) 9th-grade students).At 12 nlonths postintervention, the classroon-based Intenentlon resulted in sustainctl changea In HIV prevention beha\ior.Thl.\ article diwusacs \vh) both of the inter\ent~ons in\ol\ing peers \\ere less effective than the clasaroo~n-based intervention at the 11-month follo\v-up and.more gencmllq, suggesta a set of possihle limiting contlit~ons for the eft~cacy o f peer-based inter\cntlon.\.Kt?. 110rt1\: IMK model, HIV pre\ention inlerwnt~on.high school HIV pre\ention