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. 2011 Apr 13;2011(4):CD001035. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001035.pub2

1. Overview of intervention characteristics.

Study Intervention group 1 Intervention group 2 Intervention group 3
Boyer 2005 Cognitive‐behavioural intervention (n = 1062)
PROVIDER: Trained civilian research assistants
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: US female Marine training academy
Health promotion control (n = 1095)
Identical to Group 1 but focused on healthier food choices, sports or physical training injuries and risk of cancer
N/A
Bryan 1996 Education and skills development intervention: condom use (n = 100)
PROVIDER: Researcher
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: University
Education and skills development control: stress management (n = 98)
Comparable in format to experimental programme
N/A
Bull 2008 POWER for Reproductive Health social marketing campaign (n = 6 neighbourhoods)
PROVIDER: None (materials self‐accessed by participants)
TYPE: Information/Education; Resource provision
SETTING: Urban community venues (unspecified)
Comparison group (n = 6 neighbourhoods)
PROVIDER: None (no intervention)
TYPE: None (no intervention)
SETTING: As Group 1.
N/A
Choi 2008 Female condom skills training intervention (n = 213)
PROVIDER: Health Educators
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development; resource provision
SETTING: Family planning clinics
GROUP 2: General health promotion intervention (n = 196)
Identical to Group 1 except that it excluded practical skills development and focused on general health issues such as cancer and heart disease
N/A
Dancy 2009 GROUP 1: Mother/Daughter HIV Risk Reduction intervention (MDRR) n = 135
PROVIDER: Mothers (to their daughters)
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development (HIV risk reduction content)
SETTING: Not stated
GROUP 2: Health Expert Risk Reduction intervention (HERR) n = 127
PROVIDER: Female health professionals
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development (HIV risk reduction content)
SETTING: Not stated
GROUP 3: Mother/Daughter Health Promotion intervention (MDHP) n = 141
PROVIDER: Mothers (to their daughters)
TYPE: Not stated (nutrition and exercise content)
SETTING: Not stated
DiClemente 2004; HIV prevention intervention (n = 251)
PROVIDERS: A trained female health educator and 2 female peer educators, all African American.
TYPE: Information/education about HIV risk and prevention; practical skills development for safer sex negotiation and condom use.
SETTING: Family medicine clinic.
General health promotion group (n = 271)
PROVIDERS: As Group 1 (assumed).
TYPE: Information/education about nutrition and exercise.
SETTING: As Group 1 (assumed).
N/A
DiClemente 2009 GROUP 1: STI/HIV risk reduction intervention (Horizons) (n = 348)
PROVIDER: African American women health educators
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development; resource provision
SETTING: Sexual health clinic
GROUP 2: Enhanced usual care comparison (n = 367)
PROVIDER: As Group 1
TYPE: Information/education
SETTING: As Group 1
N/A
Downs 2004 GROUP 1: Interactive video intervention (n: not reported)
PROVIDER: Not reported (stand alone intervention for participant self use)
TYPE: Information/Education (video); Practical skills development (cognitive rehearsal)
SETTING: Primary care sites (unspecified)
GROUP 2: Content‐matched control (n: not reported)
PROVIDER: As group 1
TYPE: Information/Education (book); Practical skills development (cognitive rehearsal)
SETTING: As Group 1
GROUP 3: Topic‐matched control (n: not reported)
PROVIDER: As group 1
TYPE: Information/Education (brochures); unclear whether also a practical skills component
SETTING: As Group 1
Ferguson 1998 Culturally specific peer‐led education and skills based pregnancy prevention programme (n = 33)
PROVIDER: Peer counselors (aged 12 to 16 years)
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: Community site
Individual‐led pregnancy prevention programme (n = 30)
Similar to group 1, but taught by author alone; type appears to be information/education ‐ unclear whether skills development included
N/A
Jaworski 2001 Intervention‐Motivation‐Behavioural skills group (IMB) with motivational enhancement (n not reported)
PROVIDERS: Two facilitators who were advanced grade students in clinical psychology with training in sexual health.
TYPE: Information/education about STI transmission, consequences, prevention and treatment; Motivation enhancement; Practical skills development about sexual communication and assertiveness.
SETTING: Appears to be a university department.
Information‐only group (INFO) (n not reported)
PROVIDERS: As Group 1.
TYPE: Information/education about STI transmission, consequences, prevention and treatment. Structured and timed as Group 1.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Waiting list control (WLC) (n not reported)
PROVIDERS: None reported.
TYPE: Non‐intervention group.
SETTING: None reported.
Jemmott 2005 Skills‐based HIV/STD risk reduction intervention (n = 235)
PROVIDERS: African‐American women with at least a degree and experience working with inner city youth.
TYPE: Information/education about HIV/STI risks and transmission, risk reduction responsibilities and condom use; practical skills development for condom use and condom negotiation.
SETTING: Hospital‐based adolescent medicine clinic that provided family planning services for low income inner city youth.
Information‐based HIV/STD risk reduction intervention (n = 228)
PROVIDERS: As Group 1.
TYPE: As Group 1 but without practical skills component.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Health promotion control (n = 219)
PROVIDERS: As Group 1.
TYPE: Structure and timing as Group 1 but comprised information/ education and practical skills development relevant to prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer and stroke; no STI content.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Kershaw 2009 Group prenatal care with an integrated HIV component (Centering Pregnancy Plus) (n = 318)
PROVIDER(S): A trained practitioner (e.g. midwife or obstetrician) (unclear whether one or more).
TYPE: Group based prenatal care programme with information/education about HIV and sexual communication practical skills development.
SETTING: Hospital‐based obstetrics clinics.
Group prenatal care (Centering Pregnancy) (n = 335)
PROVIDER(S): As Group 1.
TYPE: Group based prenatal care programme similar to Group 1 but without HIV and skills components.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Individual standard prenatal care (n = 394)
PROVIDER(S): As Group 1.
TYPE: Individual based standard prenatal care programme.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Koniak‐Griffin 2003 HIV prevention programme (CHARM 1) (n = 347 after attrition)
PROVIDER: Trained nurse facilitators delivered content. Specially trained research staff delivered questionnaires.
TYPE: Information/Education, Practical Skills development, Resource provision (condoms); about HIV and AIDS.
SETTING: Schools with pregnant minor or young parents' programmes
Healthy living parenting programme (CHARM 2) (n = 150 after attrition)
PROVIDER: A nurse facilitator who was not involved in group 1.
TYPE: Information/education, practical skills development and resource provision but not specifically about HIV and AIDS (resource provision was the same as group 1).
SETTING: As Group 1.
N/A
Maynard 1994 Education and parenting skills programme for teenage mothers (n = 1721)
PROVIDER: Trained case managers
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: 3 cities; no other details given.
Usual local welfare services provision for teenage mothers (n = 1691)
Standard welfare provision (aid benefits and limited support and services ‐ unclear whether information/education component).
N/A
Morrison‐Beedy 2005 HIV risk reduction group (n = 33)
PROVIDERS: Delivered by two trained interventionists who were nurses. Some administrative assistance was provided by trained research assistants.
TYPE: Information/education about HIV risk reduction and practical skills development for sexual negotiation and assertiveness.
SETTING: An urban family planning clinic
Health promotion control group (n = 29)
PROVIDERS: The same individuals who delivered Group 1.
TYPE: Structured as Group 1 but content did not target sexual or HIV‐related behaviours. Instead, it addressed anger management, caffeine use and nutrition, which were not included in the Group 1 intervention. Comprised information/education but unclear whether also included practical skills development.
SETTING: As Group 1
N/A
Orr 1996 Brief clinic‐based condom use education and practical skills development session (n = 58 after attrition)
PROVIDER: Research assistant
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: Urban family planning and STI clinics
Brief clinic‐based condom use education session (n = 54 after attrition)
Similar to group 1, but excludes practical skills development component (condom use practice)
N/A
Peipert 2008 Individual‐tailored dual contraception interactive computer intervention (n = 272)
PROVIDER: None (computer delivery self‐accessed by participants)
TYPE: Participant‐tailored information/education on STIs and contraception delivered by interactive computer program.
SETTING: Secondary care (hospital for women and infants).
Enhanced standard care interactive computer intervention (n = 270)
PROVIDER: As Group 1.
TYPE: Standard care information/education on STIs delivered by interactive computer program.
SETTING: As Group 1.
N/A
Ploem 1997 Information, condom eroticisation/normalization and communication skills combination intervention (n = 49)
PROVIDER: Researcher
TYPE: Information/Education about AIDS (video); Practical communication skills development (audiotape); Condom eroticisation (audiotape).
SETTING: University
Information only intervention (n = 44)
PROVIDER: As Group 1
TYPE: Information/Education about AIDS (video) only.
SETTING: University
No‐intervention control group (n = 19) N/A
Roye 2007
(4 study groups)
HIV risk‐reduction counselling and video (n randomised not stated; n = 84 at baseline)
PROVIDERS: Trained clinic staff (health care assistants).
TYPE: Information/education and practical skills development: Participants received the Group 3 intervention (video) followed by the Group 2 intervention (counselling).
SETTING: Not explicitly stated; appears to be family planning clinic(s).
HIV risk reduction counselling (n randomised not stated; n = 81 at baseline)
PROVIDERS: Not stated; appears to be as Group 1.
TYPE: Information/education (details not reported) and practical skills development for sexual risk reduction (few details given).
SETTING: As Group 1.
HIV risk reduction video (n randomised not stated; n = 88 at baseline)
PROVIDER(S): Mainly self‐directed by participants (watching a video) with some contact with a research assistant.
TYPE: Information/education video about HIV and condom use. Appears also to involve some practical skills development.
SETTING: As Group 1.
Usual care (n randomised not stated; n = 84 at baseline)
PROVIDER(S): Not reported.
TYPE: Reported only as usual care, but unclear what this means.
SETTING: Not reported.
Scholes 2003 Self‐help intervention (n = 614)
PROVIDER(S): Not reported (self‐help materials mailed to participants).
TYPE: Information/education (details not specified) delivered by booklet and newsletter; resource provision comprising male and female condoms, condom carrying case and instructions.
SETTING: Managed care networks (details not reported).
Usual care (n = 596)
PROVIDER(S): Not reported.
TYPE: Usual care but no details provided.
SETTING: As Group 1.
N/A
Shain 1999 Behavioural‐cognitive intervention (n = 313)
PROVIDER: Female facilitator (same race/ethnic group)
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: Possibily public health care unit or specialist clinic
Nurse practitioner‐led counselling (n = 304)
Individualised HIV standard counselling according to the patient’s sexual history and responses to a knowledge test; type and setting as Group 1 except excluded practical skills development
N/A
Shrier 2001 Safer sex education (n = 60)
PROVIDER: female health educators
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING(S): children’s hospital adolescent clinic and inpatient service
Standard care/STD education (n = 63)
STD education provided at the discretion of the treating clinician; excluded practical skills development
N/A
Smith 1993 Condom desensitisation and AIDS education (n = 199)
PROVIDER: Female programme providers (slightly older than students)
TYPE: Information/education; practical skills development
SETTING: Educational Institution (tertiary education)
No‐intervention (n = 181) N/A

NA = Not applicable

NR = Not reported