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SynthesisHealth education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education2015

A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior and Decrease Sexually Transmitted Infections in Latinas Living in the United States.

Meghan D Althoff, Cary T Grayson, Lucy Witt, Julie Holden, Daniel Reid, Patricia Kissinger

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Synthesis in Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Meghan D AlthoffTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA malthoff@tulane.edu.
Cary T GraysonTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Lucy WittTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Julie HoldenTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA.
Daniel ReidTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Patricia KissingerTulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Tulane University · USOtsuka (United States) · US

Funding

Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug AbuseR25DA026401 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI VALDEZ, AVELARDO · 2009 to 2019
$3.2M
Latino Migrant Men: sex/drug networks and HIV/STI risk/resilienceR21DA030269 · NIDA · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KISSINGER, PATRICIA J · 2010 to 2011
$395k
Impact of networks and environment on HIV and drug risk among Latino migrantsF30DA033729 · NIDA · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI ALTHOFF, MEGHAN DOLAN · 2012 to 2016
$193k
NIDA NIH HHS F30 DA033729NIDA NIH HHS F30DA033729NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA030269NIDA NIH HHS R21DA030269NIDA NIH HHS R25 DA026401
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the effect of behavioral interventions in reducing risky sexual behavior and incident sexually transmitted infections (STI) among Latina women living in the United States. Studies were found by systematically searching the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsychInfo databases without language restriction. Two independent reviewers screened abstracts and full texts of articles to find randomized control trials testing the effects of behavioral interventions aimed at changing risky sexual behavior among Latinas. Articles were selected using prespecified inclusion criteria. Two independent reviewers extracted data from the included trials in duplicate using a standardized data extraction form. Six randomized control trials met the inclusion criteria for a total of 2,909 participants. Using random effects models with inverse variance weighting, we found a protective effect of the behavioral intervention on reported risky sexual behavior (odds ratio = 0.52; 95% confidence interval = 0.42, 0.64) and on incident nonviral STI (odds ratio = 0.65; 95% confidence interval = 0.46, 0.93). Behavioral interventions targeted toward Latina populations are effective in reducing risky sexual behaviors and incident STI and should be considered by policymakers as a potential tool for HIV/STI prevention in this population.

Indexed as

Risk Reduction BehaviorAdultCondomsFemaleHispanic or LatinoHIV InfectionsHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSexual BehaviorSexually Transmitted DiseasesUnited StatesUnsafe Sexbehavioral interventioncondom useLatinameta-analysissexually transmitted infections

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PMID24986914
PMCPMC11537170
OpenAlexW2017716945

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