Collaboration With Urban Parents to Deliver a Community-Based Youth HIV Prevention Program.
This article draws on the unified theory of behavior change to examine adult community members' participation in a collaborative, community-based HIV prevention program for inner-city youth. Specifically, the impact of a training and mentorship process is examined with a sample of parent facilitators hired to deliver an evidence-based HIV prevention program in Bronx, New York. Findings indicate that the training program impacted four of five key constructs (environmental constraints, habitual behavior, social norms, and self-concept) expected to be related to parents' ability to deliver the program constructs significantly beyond any increase evidenced by the control group (HIV knowledge increased in both groups). Community-level training programs may therefore be an effective medium for increasing caregivers' intention to collaborate in community-based prevention programs.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Jenifar
J
Chowdhury
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Stacey
S
Alicea
New York University, and senior research coordinator, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Jerrold M
JM
Jackson
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Laura
L
Elwyn
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Anita
A
Rivera-Rodriguez
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Ana
A
Miranda
Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Janet
J
Watson
New York University.
Mary M
MM
McKay