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Windows of Opportunity for Optimizing Intervention Effectiveness

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:319-320.

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IN RESPONSE to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among adolescents, there is an overriding urgency to develop and implement prevention interventions designed to motivate adolescents' adoption and maintenance of HIV-preventive practices. In the past decade, numerous HIV prevention programs have been designed, implemented, and evaluated. Modifying adolescents' HIV risk behavior has been a formidable challenge, but accumulating empirical evidence suggests that in general these programs are effective.¹ However, estimating the magnitude of intervention efficacy across these studies has been difficult given the diversity of research designs and the heterogeneity of adolescent populations.

In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Johnson et al² present their findings from a meta-analysis of HIV prevention interventions for adolescents conducted between 1985 and 2001. Johnson and colleagues synthesized the data from 56 HIV interventions. The authors calculated mean effect sizes as a measure of the magnitude of HIV intervention efficacy for relevant psychosocial and behavioral . . . [Full Text of this Article]

RECONCEPTUALIZING ADOLESCENTS' HIV RISK BEHAVIOR


THE SEARCH FOR CONTEXTUAL INTERVENTIONS

DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GENERATION OF THEORETICAL MODELS

CONCLUSIONS

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