Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress
Few interventions have targeted perceived stress as a co-occurring construct central to substance use and subsequent HIV/AIDS risk reduction among African American urban young adults. The Color It Real Program was a seven session, weekly administered age-specific and culturally-tailored intervention...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010051 |
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author | Zellner, Tiffany Trotter, Jennie Lenoir, Shelia Walston, Kelvin Men-Na’a, L’dia Henry-Akintobi, Tabia Miller, Assia |
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description | Few interventions have targeted perceived stress as a co-occurring construct central to substance use and subsequent HIV/AIDS risk reduction among African American urban young adults. The Color It Real Program was a seven session, weekly administered age-specific and culturally-tailored intervention designed to provide substance abuse and HIV education and reduce perceived stress among African Americans ages 18 to 24 in Atlanta, GA. Effectiveness was assessed through a quasi-experimental study design that consisted of intervention (n = 122) and comparison (n = 70) groups completing a pre- and post-intervention survey. A series of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were used to assess pre- to post-intervention changes between study groups. For intervention participants, perceived stress levels were significantly reduced by the end of the intervention (t(70) = 2.38, p = 0.020), condom use at last sexual encounter significantly increased (F = 4.43, p = 0.0360), intervention participants were significantly less likely to drink five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting (F = 5.10, p = 0.0245), and to use clean needles when injecting the drug (F = 36.99, p = 0.0001). This study is among the first of its kind to incorporate stress management as an integral approach to HIV/SA prevention. The program has implications for the design of other community-based, holistic approaches to addressing substance use and risky behaviors for young adults. |
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spelling | pubmed-47304422016-02-11 Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress Zellner, Tiffany Trotter, Jennie Lenoir, Shelia Walston, Kelvin Men-Na’a, L’dia Henry-Akintobi, Tabia Miller, Assia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Few interventions have targeted perceived stress as a co-occurring construct central to substance use and subsequent HIV/AIDS risk reduction among African American urban young adults. The Color It Real Program was a seven session, weekly administered age-specific and culturally-tailored intervention designed to provide substance abuse and HIV education and reduce perceived stress among African Americans ages 18 to 24 in Atlanta, GA. Effectiveness was assessed through a quasi-experimental study design that consisted of intervention (n = 122) and comparison (n = 70) groups completing a pre- and post-intervention survey. A series of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were used to assess pre- to post-intervention changes between study groups. For intervention participants, perceived stress levels were significantly reduced by the end of the intervention (t(70) = 2.38, p = 0.020), condom use at last sexual encounter significantly increased (F = 4.43, p = 0.0360), intervention participants were significantly less likely to drink five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting (F = 5.10, p = 0.0245), and to use clean needles when injecting the drug (F = 36.99, p = 0.0001). This study is among the first of its kind to incorporate stress management as an integral approach to HIV/SA prevention. The program has implications for the design of other community-based, holistic approaches to addressing substance use and risky behaviors for young adults. MDPI 2015-12-22 2016-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4730442/ /pubmed/26703653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010051 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zellner, Tiffany Trotter, Jennie Lenoir, Shelia Walston, Kelvin Men-Na’a, L’dia Henry-Akintobi, Tabia Miller, Assia Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title | Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title_full | Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title_fullStr | Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title_full_unstemmed | Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title_short | Color It Real: A Program to Increase Condom Use and Reduce Substance Abuse and Perceived Stress |
title_sort | color it real: a program to increase condom use and reduce substance abuse and perceived stress |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26703653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13010051 |
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