Project Salud: Efficacy of a community-based HIV prevention intervention for Hispanic migrant workers in south Florida

AIDS Educ Prev. 2013 Oct;25(5):363-75. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2013.25.5.363.

Abstract

Project Salud evaluates the efficacy of a community-based intervention to reduce risk behaviors and enhance factors for HIV-preventative behaviors. A randomized controlled trial of 278 high risk Latino migrant workers was conducted between 2008 and 2010. Participants completed an audio computer-assisted self-interview questionnaire at baseline and 3- and 9-month post-intervention follow-ups. Participants were randomly assigned to the community-based intervention (A-SEMI) or the health promotion condition (HPC). Both interventions consisted of four 2.5-hour interactive sessions and were structurally equivalent in administration and format. Relative to the comparison condition, A-SEMI participants reported more consistent condom use, were less likely to report never having used condoms, and were more likely to have used condoms at last sexual encounter during the past 90 and 30 days. A-SEMI participants also experienced a positive change in regard to factors for HIV-preventive behaviors over the entire 9-month period. Our results support the implementation of community-based, culturally tailored interventions among Latino migrant workers.

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Condoms / statistics & numerical data
  • Counseling
  • Female
  • Florida
  • HIV Infections / ethnology
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / ethnology*
  • Health Promotion / methods*
  • Hispanic or Latino / psychology*
  • Hispanic or Latino / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Program Evaluation
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Risk-Taking
  • Safe Sex / ethnology
  • Safe Sex / statistics & numerical data
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Transients and Migrants / psychology*
  • Transients and Migrants / statistics & numerical data
  • Young Adult