Reducing sexual risk behavior in adolescent girls: results from a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Teenage girls in low-income urban settings are at an elevated risk for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a sexual risk-reduction (SRR) intervention, supplemented with postintervention booster sessions, targeting low-income, urban, sexually active teenage girls.

Method: Randomized controlled trial in which sexually active urban adolescent girls (n = 738) recruited in a midsize northeastern U.

Risk behaviors among adolescent girls in an HIV prevention trial.

Adolescent girls remain vulnerable to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Understanding their sexual and substance use behaviors is essential to designing effective interventions to reduce their risk. In this study, baseline data were analyzed from 738 adolescent girls ages 15 to 19 years in Rochester, New York.

Determinants of adolescent female attendance at an HIV risk reduction program.

This study investigated attendance at an HIV-prevention randomized controlled trial for urban adolescent females. The intervention included four 2-hour sessions that were held at convenient community-based locations. Participants were recruited from reproductive and general health care clinics, as well as youth development programs.