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Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women
African-American women who use crack are vulnerable to HIV because of the complex social circumstances in which they live. Drug-abuse treatment for these women during pregnancy may provide time for changing risk behaviors. This paper examines the initial 6-month feasibility of a women-focused HIV in...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/389285 |
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author | Jones, Hendrée E. Berkman, Nancy D. Kline, Tracy L. Ellerson, Rachel Middlesteadt Browne, Felicia A. Poulton, Winona Wechsberg, Wendee M. |
author_facet | Jones, Hendrée E. Berkman, Nancy D. Kline, Tracy L. Ellerson, Rachel Middlesteadt Browne, Felicia A. Poulton, Winona Wechsberg, Wendee M. |
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description | African-American women who use crack are vulnerable to HIV because of the complex social circumstances in which they live. Drug-abuse treatment for these women during pregnancy may provide time for changing risk behaviors. This paper examines the initial 6-month feasibility of a women-focused HIV intervention, the Women's CoOp, adapted for pregnant women, relative to treatment-as-usual among 59 pregnant African-American women enrolled in drug-abuse treatment. At treatment entry, the women were largely homeless, unemployed, practicing unsafe sex, and involved in violence. Results indicated marked reductions in homelessness, use of cocaine and illegal drugs, involvement in physical violence, and an increase in knowledge of HIV from baseline to 6-month followup for both conditions. Findings suggest that the Women's CoOp intervention could be successfully adapted to treat this hard-to-reach population. Future studies should examine the efficacy of the pregnancy-adapted Women's CoOp for women not enrolled in drug-abuse treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-30838492011-05-03 Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women Jones, Hendrée E. Berkman, Nancy D. Kline, Tracy L. Ellerson, Rachel Middlesteadt Browne, Felicia A. Poulton, Winona Wechsberg, Wendee M. Int J Pediatr Research Article African-American women who use crack are vulnerable to HIV because of the complex social circumstances in which they live. Drug-abuse treatment for these women during pregnancy may provide time for changing risk behaviors. This paper examines the initial 6-month feasibility of a women-focused HIV intervention, the Women's CoOp, adapted for pregnant women, relative to treatment-as-usual among 59 pregnant African-American women enrolled in drug-abuse treatment. At treatment entry, the women were largely homeless, unemployed, practicing unsafe sex, and involved in violence. Results indicated marked reductions in homelessness, use of cocaine and illegal drugs, involvement in physical violence, and an increase in knowledge of HIV from baseline to 6-month followup for both conditions. Findings suggest that the Women's CoOp intervention could be successfully adapted to treat this hard-to-reach population. Future studies should examine the efficacy of the pregnancy-adapted Women's CoOp for women not enrolled in drug-abuse treatment. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3083849/ /pubmed/21541069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/389285 Text en Copyright © 2011 Hendrée E. Jones et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Jones, Hendrée E. Berkman, Nancy D. Kline, Tracy L. Ellerson, Rachel Middlesteadt Browne, Felicia A. Poulton, Winona Wechsberg, Wendee M. Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title | Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title_full | Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title_fullStr | Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title_short | Initial Feasibility of a Woman-Focused Intervention for Pregnant African-American Women |
title_sort | initial feasibility of a woman-focused intervention for pregnant african-american women |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21541069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/389285 |
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