Behavioral outcomes of AIDS educational interventions for drug users in short-term treatment.
This paper reports the behavioral outcomes of informational vs enhanced small-group educational interventions for drug users among 407 subjects in a short-term drug treatment program. Logistic regression was used to analyze drug use and sexual behaviors at the final follow-up visit. Among lower risk subjects, the enhanced intervention was more effective in reducing injection practices that produced risks in terms of human immunodeficiency virus infection; among those at highest risk, the informational interventions were more effective. The enhanced intervention was more effective than the informational interventions in reducing cocaine use at follow-up. No differential intervention effect on sexual risk behaviors was found.
McCusker
J
J
School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Stoddard
A M
AM
Zapka
J G
JG
Lewis
B F
BF
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016485:Needle Sharing; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000534:rehabilitation; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*