The investigators will develop, deliver and evaluate a solar powered tablet-based individual and group focused HIV/STI prevention intervention with internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti. Internally displaced women will be trained as community health workers to deliver the HIV/STI prevention intervention to other internally displaced women.
We will develop and field test a multi-component intervention that includes (1) solar-powered tablets with brief video-based educational messages and (2) 6 weekly peer-group sessions. The tablet will be programmed to analyze the data and to indicate incorrect HIV knowledge responses so the community health worker can immediately provide correct responses. This intervention involves 6 weekly women's health meetings that will cover a variety of issues pertinent to women's sexual health: HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision making, mental health and coping, creating social change.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
Pre-test will be individual, tablet-based; participants will receive correct information for incorrect HIV/STI knowledge responses and will watch a brief HIV/STI educational video. This will be followed by participants attending 6 weeks of group educational sessions focused on: HIV, STI, interpersonal relationships, communication and decision-making, mental health and coping, creating social change
NEGES
Léogâne, Haiti
HIV Knowledge
Brief HIV Knowledge Questionnaire (Carey \& Schroder, 2002)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Sexually Transmitted Infection Knowledge
Measured using Sexually Transmitted Disease Knowledge Questionnaire (Jaworski \& Carey, 2007)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Condom use
Measured using a self-report of frequency of condom use with regular, casual and paid sex sexual partners
Time frame: 8 weeks
Substance use
Measured using self-reported frequency of drug/alcohol use
Time frame: 8 weeks
Depression
Measured using Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Social support
Measured using Multi-dimensional scale of perceived social support (Zimet et al., 1988)
Time frame: 8 weeks
resilient coping
Measured using Brief Resilient Coping Scale (Sinclair \& Wallston, 2004)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Relationship Control
Sexual Relationship Power Scale (Pulerwitz, Gortmaker \& DeJong, 2000)
Time frame: 8 weeks
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