AIDS Preventive Interventions

Slonim-Nevo, V., Auslander, W. F., Ozawa, M. N. & Jung, K. G. (1996). The long-term impact of AIDS-preventive interventions for delinquent and abused adolescents. Adolescence, 31(122), 409-421.

The study tested the hypotheses that delinquent and/or abused adolescents participating in an intensive AIDS-prevention programs known to produce short-term benefits would, at a long-term follow-up, produce several positive outcomes. These outcomes were that those exposed to the intensive AIDS-prevention programs would know more about AIDS, engage in fewer unsafe activities, experienced an increased capacity for handling high-risk AIDS situations, and hold more positive attitudes toward AIDS interventions, than would a control group of their peers. The study's hypotheses were logically derived from an extensive review of the pertinent literature in which 30 previous studies (all from reputable scientific journals) were cited and discussed in relation to the conducted research.

Significance of Problem For Social Work Practice

Every day social workers must deal with troubled, abused and/or neglected adolescents. A substantial part of this work includes helping these young people to obtain the knowledge and skills need to prevent themselves from contracting the HIV virus. The conducted study, despite its flaws, provides social workers with at least some preliminary

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amenable to the level of data measurement. The report of statistical techniques used in the study was brief. Familiarity with the statistical methods was assumed. Thus, any reader who had only a little or no understanding of analysis of covariance models would probably have a good deal of difficulty understanding whether the selection of statistical methods was appropriate. It would have been helpful if the authors had provided just a little more information about the selected statistical method. Conceptualization and Measurement of Key Variables The study's primary independent variable was the AIDS Intervention Treatment variable operationalized at three levels: (a) adolescents who received a skills-oriented AIDS-prevention intervention; (b) adolescents who received a discussion-oriented AIDS prevention intervention; and (c) a control group of adolescents who received no intervention. Although not manipulated by the researcher, a second independent variable can be identified as the Testing variable with two levels: (a) pretest; and (b) posttest follow-up occurring nine to twelve months after the termination of the AIDS-prevention program. There were four dependent variables in the study. These were: (1) Knowledge
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