TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - 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
JO  - AIDS and behavior
A1  - Mathews, Catherine
A1  - Eggers, Sander M.
A1  - Townsend, Loraine
A1  - Aarø, Leif Edvard
A1  - de Vries, Petrus J.
A1  - Mason-Jones, Amanda J.
A1  - De Koker, Petra
A1  - McClinton Appollis, Tracy
A1  - Mtshizana, Yolisa
A1  - Koech, Joy
A1  - Wubs, Annegreet Gera
A1  - de Vries, Hein
SP  - 1821
EP  - 1840
VL  - 20
IS  - 9
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1090-7165
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-016-1410-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -