Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 8;19(6):3176. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063176.
The relationship between drug use and poor sexual health outcomes in Black adolescent females such as diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and early/unwanted pregnancy has been established in the literature. Yet, very few interventions have been successful in reducing the risk of poor sexual health outcomes and drug use for adolescent girls. Even more rare are interventions that are catered to specifically to Black girls in the United States, which is a group that has the highest rates of poorer sexual health outcomes and negative consequences associated with drug use. Therefore, this systematic review sought to identify and organize interventions that are focused on preventing HIV, STIs, early pregnancy and drug use for and include large samples of Black girls. Fifteen interventions were identified that met the review's search criteria.
A total of 15 interventions that were published between 2005 and 2020 were included in the review. While all but one intervention focused on sexual health outcomes, two interventions infused drug use education for girls.
This review provides recommendations for sexual health and drug use prevention researchers to engage in an intersectional framework and concludes with a summary of next steps to guide future research and policy work to address disparities that impact Black girls.
文献已经证实，黑人少女（如性传播感染、艾滋病毒、早期/意外怀孕的诊断）药物使用与性健康不良结果之间存在关联。然而，很少有干预措施能够成功降低少女的性健康不良结果和药物使用风险。更罕见的是针对美国黑人女孩的干预措施，她们的性健康不良结果和药物使用相关的负面后果的比率最高。因此，本系统评价旨在确定和组织专注于预防艾滋病毒、性传播感染、早期怀孕和药物使用的干预措施，并纳入大量黑人女孩。确定了符合审查搜索标准的 15 项干预措施。
共纳入了 15 项发表于 2005 年至 2020 年期间的干预措施。尽管除了一项干预措施外，所有干预措施都侧重于性健康结果，但有两项干预措施为女孩提供了药物使用教育。
本综述为性健康和药物使用预防研究人员提供了建议，以参与交叉框架，并以指导未来研究和政策工作的步骤摘要结束，以解决影响黑人女孩的差距。
