Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2011
The STEP into Action study: a peer-based, personal risk network-focused HIV prevention intervention with injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland.
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84 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 124 citations in OpenAlex.
- Peer education for HIV prevention among high-risk groups: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Use of social network analysis in the development, dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of health behavior interventions for adults: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Psychosocial Interventions to Reduce Drug and Sexual Blood Borne Virus Risk Behaviours Among People Who Inject Drugs.AIDS and behavior · 2017Pooled it
- Social network-based interventions to promote condom use: a systematic review.AIDS and behavior · 2011Pooled it
- Changes in risk behaviour following a network peer education intervention for HIV prevention among male Tajik migrants who inject drugs in Moscow: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2024Trial
- Overall, Direct, Spillover, and Composite Effects of Components of a Peer-Driven Intervention Package on Injection Risk Behavior Among People Who Inject Drugs in the HPTN 037 Study.AIDS and behavior · 2024Trial
- Effects of a social network intervention on HIV seroconversion among people who inject drugs in Ukraine: moderation by network gender composition.Harm reduction journal · 2023Trial
- Injection Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among People who Inject Drugs in Ukraine: A Random-Intercept Latent Transition Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2023Trial
- Increasing the Repertoire for Depression Care: Methods and Challenges of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Peer Support for Vulnerable Older Adults.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Injection Drug Network Characteristics Are Important Markers of HIV Risk Behavior and Lack of Viral Suppression.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2017Trial
- Evaluating network-level predictors of behavior change among injection networks enrolled in the HPTN 037 randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Trial
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- HIV incidence among people who inject drugs (PWIDs) in Ukraine: results from a clustered randomised trial.The lancet. HIV · 2016Trial
- Barriers and motivators to reducing secondhand smoke exposure in African American families of head start children: a qualitative study.Health education research · 2016Trial
- The influence of a peer-based HIV prevention intervention on conversation about HIV prevention among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland.AIDS and behavior · 2015Trial
- HERMITAGE--a randomized controlled trial to reduce sexually transmitted infections and HIV risk behaviors among HIV-infected Russian drinkers.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Trial
- Effects of an HIV peer prevention intervention on sexual and injecting risk behaviors among injecting drug users and their risk partners in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam: a randomized controlled trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Trial
- A peer-educator network HIV prevention intervention among injection drug users: results of a randomized controlled trial in St. Petersburg, Russia.AIDS and behavior · 2013Trial
- Peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors benefits high-risk young injection drug users: a latent transition analysis of the CIDUS 3/DUIT study.AIDS and behavior · 2013Trial
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Abstract
aimsTo assess the effectiveness of a peer-based, personal risk network-focused HIV prevention intervention to (i) train injection drug users (IDUs) to reduce injection and sex risk behaviors, (ii) conduct outreach to behaviorally risky individuals in their personal social networks [called risk network members (RNM)], and (iii) reduce RNM HIV risk behaviors.
designRandomized controlled trial with prospective data collection at 6, 12 and 18 months. Intervention condition consisted of five group sessions, one individual session and one session with Index and the RNM.
settingThis study was conducted in Baltimore, Maryland from March 2004 to March 2006.
participants(i) Index participants were aged ≥ 18 years and self-reported injection drug use in the prior 6 months and (ii) their RNM who were aged ≥ 18 years and drug users or sex partners of Index. MEASUREMENTS: Outcomes included: (i) injection risk based on sharing needles, cookers and cotton for injection and drug splitting, (ii) sex risk based on number of sex partners, condom use and exchanging sex and (iii) Index HIV outreach behaviors.
findingsA total of 227 Index participants recruited 336 RNM. Retention of Index at 18-month follow-up exceeded 85%. Findings suggest that the experimental condition was efficacious at 18 months in reducing Index participant injection risk [odds ratio (OR) = 0.38; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.18-0.77), drug-splitting risk (OR = 0.46; 95% CI = 0.25-0.88) and sex risk among Index (OR = 0.53; 95% CI = 0.34-0.86). Significant intervention effect on increased condom use among female RNM was observed (OR = 0.34; 95% CI = 0.18-0.62).
conclusionsTraining active IDU to promote HIV prevention with behaviorally risky individuals in their networks is feasible, efficacious and sustainable.
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