Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
HIV Prevention for Youth with Severe Mental Illness
Principal Investigator
Larry Brown, MD
Funding Source
National Institute of Mental Health
Description
This multi-site study will demonstrate the impact of a four-session
family-based intervention to increase adolescent and parent communication
and parental monitoring of adolescent activities. The family-based
intervention will be compared to an intervention that targets only
adolescents and a health promotion intervention that targets behaviors
such as smoking, dietary habits and exercise.
It is anticipated that the family-based intervention will increase
adolescents' safer sexual behaviors and improve communication and
monitoring within the family. Collaborating sites are Emory University
and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Significance
This family-based HIV prevention research is one of the first to
target adolescents with severe mental illness and their families.
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