Objective: To identify effective, theory-based, culturally sensitive behavioral interventions to help single mothers reduce their own risk of sexually transmitted HIV infection and that of their sons. Design: Randomized control trail. Sample, Setting and Years: The sample consisted of 630 African-American mothers of adolescent sons 11-15 years of age who resided in 42 low-income housing developments in Philadelphia, PA. Other participants will be the 630 sons of these women. The study was conducted between 1995 and 2000. Intervention: The mothers were assigned to: (a) a HIV risk-reduction condition in which they will receive an intervention to enhance their ability to reduce their own and their son's risk of HIV infection or (b) a control condition in which they receive a general health promotion intervention to enhance their ability to reduce their own and their son's risk of behavior-linked diseases, including cancer, heart disease, hypertension. The interventions will be structurally similar: 16 1-hour modules that include films, exercises, and small group discussions led by specially trained African-American facilitators from the mothers' housing development implemented in four sessions. Main Outcome Measures: Mothers' influence attempts and mothers' and sons' self-reported HIV risk-associated sexual behavior. Methods: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Behavioral HIV Prevention Interventions for African American mothers and their adolescent sons. Results: Findings which contribute to the development of efficient and effective HIV risk-reduction programs for low-income inner-city African-American single mothers and their adolescent sons will be presented. The findings of the grandmother-grandchild, a study supported by a minority investigator supplement grant will also be presented.
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