Ebor Megan T, Jackson Aurora P
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States.
School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States.
Front Reprod Health. 2023 Feb 14;5:898032. doi: 10.3389/frph.2023.898032. eCollection 2023.
This report describes the recruitment of a sample of older African American women to test the effectiveness of an educational HIV prevention intervention that sought to reduce depressive symptoms and thereby HIV risks in this population. The outreach venue is the Black church. A framework for maximizing response is suggested. Of 62 women who participated in two arms of the intervention, 29 were assigned randomly to a four-session discussion group (experimental condition) and 33 were assigned to a one-session informational group (control condition) focused on HIV prevention education. Between-within subjects analyses of variance showed that participation in the study was associated with a significant improvement in the women's psychological status, i.e., decreased depressive symptoms. This change in depressive symptoms was due in part to the experimental condition assignment. Implications for future HIV prevention interventions, research, and methods used to maximize the probability of response among older African American women are discussed.
本报告描述了招募老年非裔美国女性样本以测试一项教育性艾滋病毒预防干预措施有效性的情况，该干预措施旨在减轻抑郁症状，从而降低该人群中的艾滋病毒感染风险。外展场所是黑人教堂。文中提出了一个使回应最大化的框架。在参与干预两个环节的62名女性中，29名被随机分配到一个为期四节的讨论组（实验条件组），33名被分配到一个为期一节的信息组（对照组），该组专注于艾滋病毒预防教育。组间及组内方差分析表明，参与研究与女性心理状态的显著改善相关，即抑郁症状减轻。抑郁症状的这种变化部分归因于实验条件分配。文中还讨论了对未来艾滋病毒预防干预措施、研究以及用于使老年非裔美国女性回应概率最大化的方法的启示。
