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Targeting Families to Reduce Adolescent Risk?

Targeting Families to Reduce Adolescent Risk?. Geri R. Donenberg, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Director, Healthy Youths Program & Community Outreach Intervention Projects. HIV/AIDS Risk Among Youth in the US.

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Targeting Families to Reduce Adolescent Risk?

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  1. Targeting Families to Reduce Adolescent Risk? Geri R. Donenberg, PhD Associate Dean for Research Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Director, Healthy Youths Program & Community Outreach Intervention Projects

  2. HIV/AIDS Risk Among Youth in the US • Young people 15–24 years represent 25% of the sexually experienced population, yet acquire nearly half of 50% of all new STIs annually (CDC, 2009) • Most teens acquire HIV through risky sexual behavior (CDC, 2009) • Health disparities are prominent • Men who have sex with men • African Americans • African American females • African American women represent 63% of all women with AIDS in the US; • Nearly 80% of all women with AIDS in Chicago are AA • 44% of AA girls have an STI (Forhan et al., 2009)

  3. HIV/AIDS Risk Among Youth in the US • Young people 15–24 years represent 25% of the sexually experienced population, yet acquire nearly half of 50% of all new STIs annually (CDC, 2009) • Most teens acquire HIV through risky sexual behavior (CDC, 2009) • Health disparities are prominent • Men who have sex with men • African Americans • African American females • African American women represent 66% of all new HIV infections among women in the US; • Nearly 80% of all women with AIDS in Chicago are AA • New data indicate rates among AA women rival South Africa (1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime) • 44% of AA girls have an STI (Forhan et al., 2009)

  4. New Technologies • Facebook • Sexting • YouTube • Hook-up websites • Formspring • Photobucket

  5. A Girl’s Nude Photo and Altered Lives (New York Times, March 26, 2011) Kathy, 17, Queens: “There’s a positive side to sexting. You can’t get pregnant from it, and you can’t transmit S.T.D.’s. It’s a kind of safe sex.”

  6. Can families influence mitigate adolescent HIV risk?

  7. Social Personal Theoretical Model (Donenberg & Pao, 2005)

  8. Study Samples • (N=346): 12-19 years old (M=16); 55% female; 40% Caucasian; Outpatient mental health clinics; B, 6- and 12-months • (N=266): 12-16 years old (M =14.5); 100% female and African Americans; Outpatient mental health clinics; B, 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-months • (N=721): 13-18 years old (M=14.8); 57% female; 63% Black; Inpatient and outpatient mental health settings; 3-site, 3-arm RCT; B, 6-, 12-, 24-, 30-, 36-months

  9. Family Context and HIV Risk Family Context Affective Characteristics Parent-Teen Communication Instrumental Characteristics

  10. Donenberg et al. (2002) AIDS Education and Prevention

  11. Hadley et al. (2011) J of Family Psychology

  12. Donenberg et al. (2011) JCCP • African American girls who reported ever having vaginal/anal sex were more likely to report: • More permissive parenting • Less parental monitoring

  13. Family Context and HIV Risk Family Context Affective Characteristics Parent-Teen Communication Instrumental Characteristics

  14. Peer Attachment -.06 .41*** Risky Sexual Behavior Mother-Daughter Attachment -.14 -.03 Peer Norms -.27*** .57*** Emerson et al. (in press) J of Family Psychology ***p < .001

  15. Donenberg et al. (2003) JAACAP

  16. Family Context and HIV Risk Family Context Affective Characteristics Parent-Teen Communication Instrumental Characteristics

  17. Donenberg et al. (2011) JCCP • African American girls who reported ever having vaginal/anal sex were more likely to report: • Less open mother-daughter communication about sex • More frequent mother-daughter communication about sex

  18. Communication Content Hadley et al. (2009) AIDS and Behavior

  19. Communication Frequency Hadley et al. (2009) AIDS and Behavior • Parents reported more open communication than teens • Teenagers’ report of having a condom discussion with their parents was related to more open communication • Youth who reported a condom discussion with their parents reported 64% of their sexual acts protected compared to 47% for teens who had not discussed condoms with their parents

  20. Evaluating Interactions Among Family Characteristics

  21. Nappi et al. (2009) AIDS and Behavior

  22. Donenberg et al., 2012

  23. African American 14-18 year-old girls and primary female caregiver • Receiving mental health services • 2 full-day workshops • 2-arm randomized controlled trial • IMARA (SISTA, SiHLE, project STYLE) • FUEL • Assessments at Baseline, 6-, and 12-months • Surveys, interviews, STIs

  24. Ethnic and gender pride • Strengthen mother-daughter relationships and communication • Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about HIV prevention • Skills building (assertive communication, condom use) • Parental monitoring • Healthy relationships

  25. MOTTO IMARA is Mothers and Daughters IMARA is Staying Safe IMARA is Healthy Living We Are IMARA!!

  26. Saying it Assertively • Speech: • Tell the other person what you want and how you feel • Use honest, direct words • Talking: • Be firm, clear and confident • Be loud enough to be heard but not too loud • Eyes: • Use eye contact but do not glare • Body: • Face the other person • Stand up straight • Relax • Don’t crowd the other person

  27. Future Directions: Reducing Adolescent Risk • Families in HIV prevention to sustain outcomes (Donenberg et al., 2006) J Ped Psych. • Maternal needs and adolescent needs (Hadley et al., 2011) • Monitoring, communication,and attachment • W. Pequegnat & C. Bell (2012) • Structural interventions • Schools, clinics, hospitals, juvenile justice • Mental health • Cultural values and beliefs pertinent to individual’s risk (Wyatt et al., 2011) Prev. Med. • Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain • Target specific groups – MSM, juvenile offenders, African American girls and women • HIV treatment as prevention

  28. Acknowledgements • Healthy Youths Program Staff • Community Collaborators • Families and Youth • National Institute of Mental Health • National Institute of Minority Health Disparities

  29. Healthy Youths Program Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIMH, NICHD, NIMHD)

  30. Thank You

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