@article{ref1,
title="Effects of PREPARE, a Multi-component, School-Based HIV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Programme on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviour and IPV: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial",
journal="AIDS and behavior",
year="2016",
author="Mathews, Catherine and Eggers, Sander M. and Townsend, Loraine and Aarø, Leif Edvard and de Vries, Petrus J. and Mason-Jones, Amanda J. and De Koker, Petra and McClinton Appollis, Tracy and Mtshizana, Yolisa and Koech, Joy and Wubs, Annegreet Gera and de Vries, Hein",
volume="20",
number="9",
pages="1821-1840",
abstract="Young South Africans, especially women, are at high risk of HIV. We evaluated the effects of PREPARE, a multi-component, school-based HIV prevention intervention to delay sexual debut, increase condom use and decrease intimate partner violence (IPV) among young adolescents. We conducted a cluster RCT among Grade eights in 42 high schools. The intervention comprised education sessions, a school health service and a school sexual violence prevention programme. Participants completed questionnaires at baseline, 6 and 12 months. Regression was undertaken to provide ORs or coefficients adjusted for clustering. Of 6244 sampled adolescents, 55.3 % participated. At 12 months there were no differences between intervention and control arms in sexual risk behaviours. Participants in the intervention arm were less likely to report IPV victimisation (35.1 vs. 40.9 %; OR 0.77, 95 % CI 0.61-0.99; t(40) = 2.14) suggesting the intervention shaped intimate partnerships into safer ones, potentially lowering the risk for HIV.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1090-7165",
doi="10.1007/s10461-016-1410-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-016-1410-1"
}