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Deconstructing HIV Interventions Among Female Offenders

Project Title	Deconstructing HIV Interventions Among Female Offenders
Funding Source	NIDA
Project Dates	10/01/04 - 06/30/07
Project Number	DA019199
Team	Principal Investigator- Linda B. Cottler, PhD Co-Investigators- Catherine Striley, PhD, LCSW Lee Hoffer, PhD Research Statistician- Arbi Ben-Abdallah, MS Project Director- Catina Callahan, MSW

Abstract

HIV prevention interventions have not delivered the desired level of behavior change to female offenders for several reasons: the women may not perceive any need for interventions; the interventions may not appear relevant to their specific needs, or there may be client, setting, and environmental factors precluding enrollment, engagement and retention. Responding to RFA-DA-04-015, this project explores factors related to engagement in prevention efforts to develop behavioral interventions adapted specifically to female, drug abusing offenders. Deconstructing HIV Interventions Among Female Offenders aims to understand what components of an intervention developed for drug using women are particularly relevant for female offenders sentenced to community-based Court supervision. With this insight, we will restructure existing HIV prevention interventions for these women. To deconstruct aspects of the intervention that hold the greatest likelihood for success for this specific at-risk population, our team proposes to:

1. Conduct secondary analyses of a recently recruited sample of women in the St. Louis Female Drug Court to determine:

   1. Differences in the characteristics of women (including demographic, sexual behavior, and medical, psychiatric and substance use) enrolled from the Drug Court compared with non-offending women recruited from an HIV prevention study (DA11622);

   2. The client-level, environmental and intervention process factors associated with intervention participation and compliance, as well as attrition at the 4 and 12 month follow-up among both female drug-using offenders and Non-offenders.

2. Re-interview a subset of female offenders using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to ascertain the most salient factors predicting participation and compliance.

3. Synthesize the results of aims 1 and 2 to revise our intervention specifically for female drug using
   offenders at high risk for HIV/AIDS, for a future study of behavior change.
   
   
    

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