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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).