title: Evaluation of an HIV prevention intervention designed for African American Women: results from the SISTA Community-Based Organization Behavioral Outcomes Project.
abstract: One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's strategies for addressing racial disparities within the HIV epidemic is to support the implementation of HIV prevention behavioral interventions designed for African Americans. One such intervention is Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS (SISTA), a culturally relevant and gender-specific, five-session, group-level, HIV prevention intervention designed for African American women. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded five community-based organizations to conduct outcome monitoring of SISTA to assess the outcomes associated with implementation in the field. Using a 90-day recall, demographic and sexual risk data were collected from participants at baseline and at 90 and 180 days post-intervention. Findings reveal that women participating in SISTA (n = 432) demonstrated a significant reduction in sexual risk between baseline and both follow-up time points for each of the six outcomes being measured (e.g., any unprotected sex, all protected sex).
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-E59, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA. gvf8@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Tobey N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Sapiano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kalayil
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Uhl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel-Larson
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015397:Program Evaluation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012309:Risk-Taking; D021841:Safe Sex; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014481:United States; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000517:prevention & control; D055815:Young Adult