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The Impact of a Brief Motivational Intervention on Unprotected Sex and Sex While High Among Drug-Positive Emergency Department Patients Who Receive STI/HIV VC/T and Drug Treatment Referral as…

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Title
The Impact of a Brief Motivational Intervention on Unprotected Sex and Sex While High Among Drug-Positive Emergency Department Patients Who Receive STI/HIV VC/T and Drug Treatment Referral as Standard of Care
Published in
AIDS and Behavior, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/s10461-012-0134-0
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Edward Bernstein, Desiree Ashong, Timothy Heeren, Michael Winter, Caleb Bliss, Guillermo Madico, Judith Bernstein

Abstract

This randomized, controlled trial, conducted among out-of-treatment heroin/cocaine users at an emergency department visit, tests the impact on sexual risk of adding brief motivational intervention (B-MI) to point-of-service testing, counseling and drug treatment referral. 1,030 enrollees aged 18-54 received either voluntary counseling/testing (VC/T) with drug treatment referral, or VC/T, referral, and B-MI, delivered by an outreach worker. We measured number and proportion of non-protected sex acts (last 30 days) at 6 and 12 months (n = 802). At baseline, 70% of past-30-days sex acts were non-protected; 35% of sex acts occurred while high; 64% of sexual acts involved main, 24% casual and 12% transactional sex partners; 1.7% tested positive for an STI, and 8.8% for HIV. At six or 12 month follow-up, 20 enrollees tested positive for Chlamydia and/or Gonorrhea, and 6 enrollees HIV sero-converted. Self-reported high-risk behaviors declined in both groups with no significant between-group differences in behaviors or STI/HIV incidence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Portugal 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 112 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 16%
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Other 19 16%
Unknown 28 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 26%
Psychology 22 19%
Social Sciences 13 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 34 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2012.
All research outputs
#13,483,984
of 23,849,058 outputs
Outputs from AIDS and Behavior
#1,703
of 3,566 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#147,111
of 250,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age from AIDS and Behavior
#22
of 38 outputs
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