Interpersonal Relations, Mental Disorders, Risk Reduction Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
HIV prevention, sexually transmitted infection prevention, HIV knowledge, relationship power, depression, coping, social support, internally displaced persons, community health worker, HIV/STI educational video, substance use, women's health
Brief summary
The investigators will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based individual and group focused HIV/STI prevention intervention with internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti. Internally displaced women will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI prevention intervention to other internally displaced women.
Detailed description
We will develop and field test a multi-component intervention that includes (1) solar-powered tablets with brief video-based educational messages and (2) 6 weekly peer-group sessions. The tablet will be programmed to analyze the data and to indicate incorrect HIV knowledge responses so the community health worker can immediately provide correct responses. This intervention involves 6 weekly women's health meetings that will cover a variety of issues pertinent to women's sexual health: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, mental health and coping, creating social change.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALindividual and group-based, community health worker delivered
Pre-test will be individual, tablet-based; participants will receive correct information for incorrect HIV/STI knowledge responses and will watch a brief HIV/STI educational video. This will be followed by participants attending 6 weeks of group educational sessions focused on: HIV, STI, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision-making, mental health and coping, creating social change
Sponsors
NEGES Foundation, Leogane, Haiti
Adelphi University
Women's College Hospital
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 18 and over * capable of providing informed consent * internally displaced (living in tent or camp) * female
Exclusion criteria
* male * under 18 years old * not able to provide informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HIV Knowledge | 8 weeks | Brief HIV Knowledge Questionnaire (Carey & Schroder, 2002) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Condom use | 8 weeks | Measured using a self-report of frequency of condom use with regular, casual and paid sex sexual partners |
| Substance use | 8 weeks | Measured using self-reported frequency of drug/alcohol use |
| Depression | 8 weeks | Measured using Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) |
| Sexually Transmitted Infection Knowledge | 8 weeks | Measured using Sexually Transmitted Disease Knowledge Questionnaire (Jaworski & Carey, 2007) |
| resilient coping | 8 weeks | Measured using Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair & Wallston, 2004) |
| Relationship Control | 8 weeks | Sexual Relationship Power Scale (Pulerwitz, Gortmaker & DeJong, 2000) |
| Social support | 8 weeks | Measured using Multi-dimensional scale of perceived social support (Zimet et al., 1988) |
Countries
Haiti
Outcome results
None listed