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© 2004 American Public Health Association
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
The authors are with RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Drive, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709–2194 (e-mail: wmw{at}rti.org).
Objectives. This study compares 3- and 6-month outcomes of a woman-focused HIV intervention for crack abusers, a revised National Institute on Drug Abuse standard intervention, and a control group.
Methods. Out-of-drug-treatment African American women (n = 620) who use crack participated in a randomized field experiment. Risk behavior, employment, and housing status were assessed with linear and logistic regression.
Results. All groups significantly reduced crack use and high-risk sex at each follow-up, but only woman-focused intervention participants consistently improved employment and housing status. Compared with control subjects at 6 months, woman-focused intervention participants were least likely to engage in unprotected sex; revised standard intervention women reported greatest reductions in crack use.
Conclusions. A woman-focused intervention can successfully reduce risk and facilitate employment and housing and may effectively reduce the frequency of unprotected sex in the longer term.
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