Reducing HIV & Domestic Violence Risk in Women Offenders
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00289939 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: February 10, 2006
Last Update Posted
: February 28, 2006
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The long-term goal of this work is to reduce the prevalence of HIV and domestic violence among women at risk by encouraging self-protective behaviors. To obtain this goal, Multnomah County Health Department and Oregon Department of Human Services have conducted a randomized trial of an intervention to prevent HIV and domestic violence among women who have recent criminal justice involvement and who are at risk for HIV infection.
Women enrolled in the study were randomly assigned to one of three study conditions:
- Group 1: these women received information on local resources addressing HIV prevention, domestic violence, and life stability issues; they did not receive any counseling sessions as part of the study itself.
- Group 2: these women received up to ten supportive counseling sessions based on the techniques of motivational interviewing. These sessions aimed to reduce HIV risk and to improve life stability.
- Group 3: these women received up to ten supportive counseling sessions based on motivational interviewing. These sessions aimed to reduce risk for HIV and domestic violence and to improve life stability.
The primary hypotheses of this study were:
- 1. Supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) addressing HIV prevention and increased life stability will lead to reductions of HIV risk behavior among women enrolled in the study.
- 2. Supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) addressing domestic violence prevention, HIV prevention, and increased life stability, will bring about reductions in experiences of domestic violence and a reduction of HIV risk among these women.
- 3. The supportive counseling received in this study will enhance these women's self-efficacy, self-esteem, and psychological well-being.
Women in all three experimental groups were interviewed at the beginning of the study and again after 4, 7, and 10 months. These assessment interviews asked questions about: HIV risk; experiences of domestic violence; and life stability issues such as education, employment, and housing; and included biological testing for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Women in Group 2 and Group 3 participated in up to 10 sessions of supportive counseling (motivational interviewing) between the time of enrollment and the 4-month interviews.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV Infections Domestic Violence Sexually Transmitted Diseases | Behavioral: Motivational interviewing to reduce risk for HIV and DV | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Enrollment : | 530 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Reducing HIV & Domestic Violence Risk in Women Offenders |
Study Start Date : | September 2000 |
Study Completion Date : | January 2005 |
- unprotected sex
- injection drug use
- intimate partner violence
- violence from others
- self-esteem
- anxiety
- depression
- housing stability
- employment
- education

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- women
- who were 18 years or older
- who had been in jail or prison in the past year or who were currently on parole or probation
- who had engaged in HIV-related risk behaviors (injection drug use, crack use, intercourse with a male injection drug user, exchanging sex, or having had ten or more sexual partners) in the past year
Exclusion Criteria: Women were excluded from the study if:
- they were unable to give informed consent
- they were HIV positive at the time of screening for enrollment
- they reported highly unstable living conditions at screening

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00289939
United States, Oregon | |
SE Health Center | |
Portland, Oregon, United States, 97292 |
Principal Investigator: | Michael J. Stark, Ph.D. | Multnomah County Health Department |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00289939 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R01DA012572 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | February 10, 2006 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 28, 2006 |
Last Verified: | July 2005 |
Keywords provided by Multnomah County Health Department:
women women's health HIV risk factors risk behaviors prevention |
motivational interviewing domestic violence partner violence behavioral trial community justice criminal justice |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases Infection Genital Diseases, Male Genital Diseases, Female |