Document 0694
 DOCN  M9480694
 TI    The impact of providing incentives for attendance at AIDS prevention
       sessions.
 DT    9410
 AU    Deren S; Stephens R; Davis WR; Feucht TE; Tortu S; Institute for AIDS
       Research, National Development and Research; Institutes, Inc., New York
       City.
 SO    Public Health Rep. 1994 Jul-Aug;109(4):548-54. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/94316772
 AB    The research literature on AIDS prevention efforts contains many reports
       on the impact of intervention sessions. Little information is available,
       however, on the success of various strategies to recruit clients to
       attend these sessions. An assessment of the comparative impact of money
       and other types of incentives on group attendance in two AIDS risk
       reduction projects, in the Harlem area of New York City and in
       Cleveland, OH, was undertaken. In both projects, injecting drug users
       and the sex partners of injecting drug users were recruited to
       participate in group sessions that focused on the reduction of AIDS risk
       behaviors. Data on group attendance were analyzed for 838 people in the
       New York project and 1,168 in the Ohio project. After the projects were
       underway, attendance incentives at both were changed from money to food
       coupons or gift certificates. Results indicated that a nonmonetary
       incentive was associated with a significant decline in group attendance.
       Concerns regarding paying monetary incentives to injecting drug users
       are discussed.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL  Adult  Ethics
       Female  Health Education/*ECONOMICS  Human  Intervention Studies  Male
       *Motivation  New York City  Ohio  *Patient Acceptance of Health Care
       Risk-Taking  Sexual Partners  *Substance Abuse, Intravenous  Support,
       U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  CLINICAL TRIAL  JOURNAL ARTICLE  RANDOMIZED
       CONTROLLED TRIAL

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