Four-year behavioral outcomes of an intervention for parents living with HIV and their adolescent children.
OBJECTIVE
The adjustment of parents living with HIV (PLH) and their adolescent children was examined over 4 years in response to an intervention. Outcomes at 2 years had been previously published.


METHODS
A randomized controlled trial was conducted, with a representative sample from New York City.


RESULTS
In the intervention condition, fewer adolescents became teenage parents, and conduct problems tended to be lower over 4 years than in the standard care condition. Fewer parents were drug dependent and tended to relapse into substance use or use passive coping styles compared with the standard care condition over 4 years. The time-trend analysis showed that the significant reductions in problem behaviors and emotional distress previously observed over 15-24 months in the intervention condition, then eroded over time and were non-significant at 48 months.


CONCLUSIONS
Ongoing support and skills are needed to maintain intervention effects over longer periods.
Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane
MJ
AIDS Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Rotheram@ucla.edu
Lee
Martha
M
Leonard
Noelle
N
Lin
Ying-Ying
YY
Franzke
Laura
L
Turner
Elizabeth
E
Lightfoot
Marguerita
M
Gwadz
Marya
M
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D005192:Family Health; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome