Development and preliminary evaluation of a behavioural HIV-prevention programme for teenage girls of Latino descent in the USA.
National data suggests that teenage girls of Latino descent in the USA are disproportionately affected by HIV, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting the rate of new infections being approximately four times higher compared to White women of comparable age . This paper highlights the need for an effective single-sex HIV-prevention programme for teenage girls of Latino descent and describes the development and preliminary evaluation of Chicas Healing, Informing, Living and Empowering (CHILE), a culturally-tailored, HIV-prevention programme exclusively for teenage girls of Latino descent that was adapted from Sisters Informing, Healing, Living and Empowering (SiHLE), an evidence-based HIV- prevention program that is culturally tailored for African American young women. Theatre testing, a pre-testing methodology to assess consumer response to a demonstration of a product, was utilised to evaluate the relevance and utility of the HIV programme as well as opportunities for the integration of cultural constructs. Future directions for the evaluation of CHILE are discussed.
a Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , USA.
Tatiana M
TM
Davidson
Cristina M
CM
Lopez
Raelle
R
Saulson
April L
AL
Borkman
Kathryn
K
Soltis
Kenneth J
KJ
Ruggiero
Michael
M
de Arellano
Gina M
GM
Wingood
Ralph J
RJ
Diclemente
Carla Kmett
CK
Danielson
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012747:Sexual Partners; D014481:United States
HIV; Latino; USA; prevention; young women